Former India all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar has been appointed as the head coach of the Nepal cricket team. Prabhakar will now take over as the head coach in place of former Sri Lankan cricketer Pubudu Dasanayake. In his time, Prabhakar was one of the best all-rounders in the world. Now an international coach has also become.
Prabhakar played 39 Tests and 130 One Day Internationals from 1984 to 1986. Prabhakar has also been the coach of the Ranji team of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi. Apart from this, he was also the bowling coach of the Afghanistan national team in 2016. According to a statement from the Nepalese Cricket Association, Prabhakar said that given the interest and talent, and skill in cricket in Nepal, I am very much looking forward to working with the Nepal cricket team and making it a strong team.
There was a time when every Indian cricket fan was well aware of Manoj Prabhakar's name in the 1980s and 1990s. Prabhakar has played 39 Test matches for Team India and has taken 96 wickets at 37.30 and scored 1600 runs in 58 Test innings at an average of 32.65. This includes 1 century and 9 half-centuries. Talking about the same thing in limited overs cricket, he has scored 1858 runs in 130 ODIs. In which 2 centuries and 11 half-centuries are included. Apart from this, he has also taken 157 wickets at an average of 28.47.
For your information, let us tell you that Manoj Prabhakar was involved in a set operation. Through this operation, many cricketers were tried to be exposed, but still, they were accused of fixing. After this whole incident, the BCCI banned Manoj from playing cricket. In the year 2011, he had to resign from the post of coach of the Delhi team, because he had publicly criticized the players and selectors a lot. Prabhakar has also contested the Lok Sabha elections in 1996 on a Congress ticket. But he could not get success.
