Prashant Parameswaran

Prasanth Parameswaran is a left arm medium pacer from Kerala. A hammer thrower in school, he switched to cricket in college when he was 19 and made good progress to represent Kerala in the Ranji trophy and South Zone in the Duleep and Deodhar Trophy competitions. He attended the Kochi Tuskers Kerala camp during IPL 2011 as a nets practice bowler where his impressive showing led Coach Geoff Lawson to sign him up for the team. On his IPL debut against the Delhi Daredevils he had Virender Sehwag caught behind in his first over and ended the game with neat figures of 2/29 to pick up the man of the match award. Parameswaran was however hit by Chris Gayle for 37 runs in a single over in a following game against RCB. He ended the season with 4 wickets from 5 games with best figures of 2/20 coming against Rajasthan Royals. Prasanth was signed by RCB midway through the 2012 IPL season as a replacement for the injured Sreenath Aravind.

A member of the Kerala Squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Prasanth played a key role with the ball in winning matches for his home side, with figures of 4/24 against Hyderabad and 3/34 against Goa.

He had a good run in 2012 in his appearances for RCB, taking 5 wickets in the 4 games he played.

RCB Highlights

RCB vs. DD, Delhi, IPL 2012
RCB had posted a massive 215/1 but Delhi had the personnel to chase it down. But Prasanth Parameswaran struck with his very first ball of the game, getting rid of the dangerous Mahela Jayawardene. He returned to bowl the last over with Delhi needing 30 off it. Still possible considering Andre Russell was batting but a slower delivery accounted for him. Umesh Yadav hit the last ball straight to another fielder making it a neat 3/30 haul for Parameswaran.