Prashant Vaidya is a former Indian cricketer who represented India in international cricket during the mid-1990s. A right-arm medium-fast bowler from Madhya Pradesh, he was part of the Indian One Day International squad in 1994 and 1995, and had a long domestic career in the Ranji Trophy.
| Full name | Prashant Vaidya |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Role | Bowler |
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium-fast |
| Domestic team | Madhya Pradesh |
| Format represented for India | One Day Internationals |
Vaidya emerged through the domestic cricket structure in central India, playing first-class cricket for Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy. As a seam bowler, he was relied upon to take the new ball and provide breakthroughs in the early overs, a role in which he developed a reputation in the domestic circuit.
Vaidya was selected for the Indian One Day International side in the mid-1990s, a period in which the Indian team was rebuilding its pace attack and giving opportunities to medium-pacers from the domestic circuit. He featured in a small number of ODIs for India before returning to domestic cricket. He did not play Test cricket for India.
His longer career was at the first-class level with Madhya Pradesh, where he was part of bowling attacks that competed in the Ranji Trophy through the 1990s. He also appeared in zonal and limited-overs domestic tournaments organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Vaidya's career is representative of a generation of Indian seam bowlers from non-metropolitan centres who broke into the national side during the 1990s, a decade in which the BCCI broadened its talent base beyond the traditional cricketing strongholds of Mumbai, Delhi, and Chennai.