Rudra Pratap Singh, born on December 6, in 1985, is primarily a left-arm fast-medium bowler, and a right-hand batsman.

R.P. Singh shot to the limelight, during the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004. The resourceful bowler, availed of his valuable assets and grabbed eight splendid wickets at an average of 24.75 each , while bowling in the slog over towards the close of the innings.

Sometimes later in 2004, R.P.Singh converged with the echelon of the Indian left-arm seamers. R.P. Singh, the bowling cyclone from Uttar Pradesh, has the record to flaunt 34 wickets in six Ranji Trophy games. This was the greatest concerted achievement for that summer.

By the middle of 2005, R.P.Singh, owing to his merit, entered the National One-Day team. The explosive bowling of R.P.Singh, showed its potency in the very second over of his ODI debut against the astounded Zimbabwe at Harare on 4th September 2005. He captured two wickets.

R.P.Singh`s outstanding acquisition of the four wickets against Sri Lanka, and that too in a batting-friendly wicket in his third One-Day International, helped India, to arrest the progress of Sri Lanka at an 196 all out. R.P. Singh, instrumental in the team`s success, was conferred upon the "Man of the Match Award".

R.P.Singh did not become complacent with his accomplishment. He sustained this high-quality performance, and landed up with another three wickets in the fourth match. Rudra Pratap got into the Test squad and was given opportunity to make his Test debut in the second Test against Pakistan at Faisalabad , in Pakistan, in January 2006. Again, R.P.Singh added a feather in his cap by picking up 5 important wickets. He was awarded the "Player of the Match" . In the fourth match of the one-day series against Pakistan in 2006, Rudra Pratap`s attainment of 4 wickets catapulted India to the ecstatic elevation of a 3-1 lead in the series. India reached a 4-1 victory in the series.

R.P.Singh , the young masterbowler has won the "Man of the Match" ward three times, within the 11 ODI matches of his just flowered international career .

Singh, though suffered a seatback for sometime, due to a temporary fall in his performance-level, yet he has regained his fame and aura, when he was invited to join the Test battalion for the tour to England . There , he has fared quite well. He dashingly collected 5/59 at the historic ground of the Lord`s . This happened to be his first five-wicket-haul in Tests career.

Finally, in the recent times, in 2007`s Twenty 20 World Cup, he has exhibited impressive feats. Team India has ascended the lofty pinnacle of glory. In the final match on 24th September, 2007, held at Johanesberg, this man of mettle has grabbed 3 wickets, for 26 runs.

India`s recent triumph in this Twenty 20 World Cup has attested the fact , that this young generation of perfect players, like R.P.Singh, has the caliber, to lead Indian cricket, and the entire cricket-maniac nation, towards the destination of dream-fulfillment.