Prasanna Agoram

Prasanna Agoram, also known as Pdogg, is an Indian cricket data analyst, coach, cricket performance analyst, video analyst, YouTuber, commentator. He served as the Technical Strategy Analyst of South Africa national cricket team for over a decade.

He is a Level 3 certified coach from CSA (Cricket South Africa), qualified umpire from BCCI having diverse experiences of 11 years as performance coach with Proteas (South Africa national cricket team), and 2 years as Performance analyst with Indian hockey. He is currently working as high-performance manager with Gauteng province of Cricket South Africa.

Career He obtained an engineering degree with a gold medal in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur. He also played under-19 cricket for Tamil Nadu at state level for a short tenure.

After a brief stint in umpiring, he plied his trade in pursuing a career on data analytics. He began his analytics career focusing on the statistical analysis of cricket in 2001, at a time when there were only a handful of cricket analysts available as the data analytics, data statistics in cricket had been at its infancy stage. Cricket data analytics were not taken seriously into consideration by players and commentators, (owing to slow technological adaptation by the sport itself) during the time when Agoram entered into the cricketing fraternity as a data analyst. He began building his own cricket data driven software database to research on the matchups and head-to-head record between a selected list of batters against a selected list of bowlers.

Agoram was appointed as the performance analyst of the Royal Challengers Banglore outfit for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008. South African players Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher who were also part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore side during the 2008 IPL season, recommended Cricket South Africa to consider Agoram as the viable candidate for the job role of performance analyst of the South African men's national cricket team after being impressed with his work.

Agoram recalled memories of having worked with prominent South African cricketers including Hashim Amla and Dale Steyn whom he mentioned as the few players who cautiously approached the game with data analytics in mind coupled with the performance oriented thought process which both Amla and Steyn formulated and applied during their playing careers until their retirements. Some reports also suggested that he was denied visa by Pakistani authorities due to his Indian nationality as he was supposed to travel with the South African test team for their tour of Pakistan in 2020–21 season. However, Agoram revealed that he made a decision to resign from his role of performance analyst with Cricket South Africa even before the tour of Pakistan had begun.

Over the years, he spent working with several cricketers and had instructed guidelines on what exactly is the length to bowl, what length has been successful in the past, where to bowl in the death overs, what field to set etc, amplifying the tactical acumen he possessed during his career as a performance analyst. He served as the analyst coach of the Rising Pune Supergiant side for the 2016 Indian Premier League season. He was appointed as the high-performance coach of the Kings XI Punjab side for the 2019 Indian Premier League. Agoram played a pivotal role in helping to elevate the West Indies speedster Shamar Joseph to rise up through the ranks by encouraging him to pursue his career in cricket. Agoram who worked as a talent scout for Guyana Amazon Warriors witnessed the skillsets of Joseph in the net training session conducted by the Guyana Amazon Warriors camp ahead of the 2023 Caribbean Premier League season, which caught his attention and P-Dogg eventually convinced then Guyana Amazon Warriors captain Imran Tahir to include Joseph in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2023 CPL season. He also served as performance analyst of Deccan Gladiators during the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 season.

In the present he runs his own YouTube channel Pdoggspeaks, where he regularly appears as a data analyst, providing insights on cricket and match previews & reviews for cricket matches.Also, he is a regular collaborator on Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin's youtube channel where he is known for his reviews with his singing skills, encouraged by Ashwin.