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Full name Prashant Sridhar Vaidya
Born September 23, 1967, Nagpur, Maharashtra
Current age 41 years 20 days
Major teams India, Bengal, Vidarbha
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

ODIs

7.50

125.00

First-class

1038

17.59

List A

116

8.28

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

ODIs

184

174

2/41

43.50

5.67

46.0

First-class

8790

4898

171

6/128

28.64

3.34

51.4

List A

1726

1249

3/23

27.15

4.34

37.5

Career statistics

ODI debut

Australia v India at Dunedin, Feb 22, 1995 scorecard

Last ODI

India v South Africa at Sharjah, Apr 14, 1996 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class span

1987/88 - 1995/96

List A span

1990/91 - 1995/96

Prashant Vaidya had a short international career - and his first class career too did not last very long. He made his Ranji Trophy debut in 1992-93 and by the end of the 1996-97 season, his career had virtually ground to a halt. But very early in his career, he was thought of as a medium pace bowler of some promise, especially after he spent some time at the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai and was pitchforked into the national squad which toured New Zealand in 1994-95. He got to play in only one ODI against Australia at Dunedin in the New Zealand Centenary Tournament. Following that, he went with the Indian team for the Asia Cup in Sharjah and there again he got to play only one match, against Bangladesh. The next season he played two games against South Africa and Pakistan in the Pepsi Sharjah Cup. But after playing these four matches, his rather undistinguished international career came to an end. Even on the domestic circuit, Vaidya did not record any outstanding performance and very soon disappeared totally from the scene. (Natarajan Sriram)