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Full name | Kasireddi Var Prasad Rao | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jamshedpur, Bihar (now Jharkhand, India | 21 November 1965|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Vara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1987/88–1999/00 | Bihar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,10 January 2016 |
Kasireddi Var Prasad Rao (born 11 November 1965),commonly known as K. V. P. Rao,is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Bihar between the 1987/88 and 1999/00 seasons. After retirement,he worked in administrative roles for the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Manager KVP Rao,in charge of domestic cricket,has been sacked by the BCCI in an AGM,dated 24th Dec 2020. BCCI has terminated KVP Rao from all cricket operations.
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A level-3 cricket coach,Rao was appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India as its game development manager in 2010. [2] He became an administrator of the National Cricket Academy in 2013.[ citation needed ] In 2015,he was named in a five-man ad-hoc panel to oversee cricket affairs in the state of Uttarakhand. [3]
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