Rudra Pratap Singh was born on December 6, 1985 at Rai Bereli in Uttar Pradesh. He is a left arm fast medium bowler. In the U-19 world cup of 2004 he took 8 wickets at an average of 24.75.He picked up 34 wickets in the Ranji games for Uttar Pradesh, which help him to get chance in the national squad.

He picked up two wickets in his second over of international cricket, against Zimbabwe at Harare in September. In the third match he smashed Srilanka by taking 4 wickets in 35 runs earned the title of man of match. In January 2006, Rudra Pratap Singh made his test debut in the 2nd test against Pakistan at Faisabad and won the man of the match award by taking 5 wickets. In the 4th match of the ODI series against Pakistan by securing 4 wickets. He helped India in winning the series. Recently in England tour his perfomance was good . He took 5/59 at Lord`s his first five-wicket-haul in Tests and also managed to pick up 7 wickets in the series.

In the ICC World Cup Twenty20 tournament in South Africa he was the second highest wicket taker as he took 12 wickets in 7 matches.