As a Player Prabhakar quite regularly opened Indian batting order and the bowling. He was one of the few players to do so consistently at international level. He accomplished this 45 times in ODIs and 20 times in Tests, more than any other player in both formats. At the age of 32, Prabhakar played his last ODI against
Sri Lanka in the
1996 Cricket World Cup in
Delhi. He struggled to bowl well in the match and had to bowl off-spin in the last two overs. The crowd booed him off the ground. In November 2011, he was sacked as the coach of Delhi for speaking against the management and the team in media. In December 2015, he was named as bowling coach of
Afghanistan cricket team ahead of
2016 ICC World Twenty20 that was played in
India in March 2016. Prabhakar was appointed head coach of
Nepal in August 2022. He resigned in December 2022 after only four months. ==Controversies==