Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad

Born: 5 August 1969

He is a former Indian cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs.
He made his debut in 1994.
Primarily a right-arm medium-fast bowler, Prasad was noted for his bowling combination with Javagal Srinath.
He is the bowling coach for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009.
He took 96 wickets from 33 Tests at an average of 35, and 196 wickets from 161 ODIs at an average of 32.30.
He was more effective on wickets that helped seam bowling even though his best Test bowling figures of 6 for 33, achieved against Pakistan in the 1999 Test series in India, came on a docile pitch in Chennai; these figures included a spell of bowling in which he took 5 wickets for 0 runs.
Notably, he once took 10 wickets in a Test match in Durban, South Africa, in December 1996.
It remains his only ten-wicket haul in Test cricket.
He also took five-wicket hauls in England, in 1996, in Sri Lanka, in 2001, and in the West Indies, in 1997.
In the 1996/97 season, he took 55 wickets in 15 Tests and 48 wickets in 30 ODIs.
For the period, he was named the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year.
He received the Arjuna Award in 2000.