Full name : Rudra Pratap Singh
Born : December 6, 1985, Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh
Current age: 23 years
Major teams : India, Deccan Chargers, India A, India Under-19s, Leicestershire, Rajasthan
Cricket Association President's XI, Uttar Pradesh
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Left-arm fast-medium
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Career statistics
Test debut Pakistan v India at Faisalabad, Jan 21-25, 2006
Last Test India v South Africa at Ahmedabad, Apr 3-5, 2008
ODI debut Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Sep 4, 2005
Last ODI India v England at Indore, Nov 17, 2008
T20I debut India v Scotland at Durban, Sep 13, 2007
Last T20I India v Australia at Mumbai (BS), Oct 20, 2007
Twenty20 debut Railways v Uttar Pradesh at Jaipur, Apr 3, 2007
Last Twenty20 Royal Challengers Bangalore v Deccan Chargers at Johannesburg, May 24, 2009
Profle
Rudra Pratap Singh first made the headlines in the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004, taking eight wickets at 24.75 apiece and bowling well in the slog overs at the end f the innings. Later that year he joined the conveyor belt of Indian left-arm seamers, aking 34 wickets in six Ranji Trophy games for Uttar Pradesh, the joint-highest for the ummer.
He made the national one-day squad at the end of 2005, and took two wickets in is second over of international cricket, against Zimbabwe at Harare in September. He ook four wickets (and the match award) against Sri Lanka in his third game, and three more in his fourth, before a run of four wicketless matches cost him his place after the irst match of the West Indies tour in May 2006. He also won a couple of Test caps, inning the match award on his debut for some persistent bowling on a shirtfront at aisalabad, where Pakistan ran up 588. He drifted out of contention after that, but he is still young, and well respected in the Indian set-up, as Virender Sehwag confirmed: "RP is a very talented bowler - his specialty is that he can bring the ball into the ight-handers and swing it both ways." He was recalled for the tours of Bangladesh and ngland in 2007. It was the start of his most prolific season, which included a five-icket haul at Lord's, crucial strikes in the victorious ICC World Twenty20 and a four-wicket haul in Perth which shut Australia out of the match. However, his bowling lacked bite after the tour of Australia and went wicket-less in the home Tests against South Africa.
