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Piloo Reporter
Piloo Dara Reporter (24 September 1938 – 3 September 2023) was an Indian international cricket umpire who umpired in 14 Test matches and 22 One Day Internationals in a career spanning three decades. He was among the first of the two neutral umpires, in modern cricket, when he officiated in a Test match between Pakistan and the West Indies in Lahore in 1986.
Pinal Shah
WicketkeeperPinal Shah (born 3 November 1987, in Baroda) was the wicket-keeper for India U19s World Cup squad. He is an able batsman and has played five first-class matches for Baroda scoring 377 runs, including a blistering 217* against Services in early 2006. He usually bats in the middle-order, but has also opened on occasion.
Pincky Balhara
Pincky Balhara is an Indian Kurash wrestler and Judoka.
Pinki Pramanik
Pinki Pramanik (born 10 April 1986 in Purulia) is an Indian former track and field athlete who specialised in 400- and 800-metre events. As part of the national 4×400 metres relay team, Pramanik won the silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the gold medal at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and 2006 Asian Games. She won three gold medals at the 2006 South Asian Games, winning the 400 and 800m events and as a member of the relay team.
Pinki Rani
Pinki Rani Jangra (born 28 April 1990) is a flyweight Indian boxer from Hisar, Haryana and a four time national champion. She won bronze medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She won gold medal at the President's Cup International Boxing in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2015.
Pinky Bompal Magar
Pinky Bompal Magar is an Indian former footballer who played as a forward. She was elected as a member of the technical committee of the All India Football Federation in September 2022.
Piyush Chawla
BowlerPiyush Chawla (Born 24 December 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder, who bats left handed and bowls right-arm leg break. Chawla has played for the India national team, and was a member of the Indian squad that won the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
Piyush Khakhar
Piyush Khakhar (born 22 October 1965) is an Indian former first-class cricketer. He is now an umpire and has stood in matches in the Ranji Trophy.
Piyush Singh
Piyush Singh (born 4 May 2001) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Bihar in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 24 February 2019.
Piyush Tanwar
Piyush Tanwar (born 8 October 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Gujarat in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 27 February 2019.
Plazor Tamang
Palzor Tamang (born 22 February 1993) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Sikkim in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 20 September 2018. He made his first-class and Twenty20 debut also for Sikkim in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy (on 1 November 2018), and the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (on 21 February 2019), respectively.
PO Surjeet Singh
PO Surjeet Singh (born 10 August 1990) is an Indian professional kabaddi player currently playing for Dabang Delhi K.C. in the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League. He plays in the Right Cover position. He specializes in blocking and dashing his opponents out of the mat.
Pochiah Krishnamurthy
Pallemoni Krishnamurthy, also known as Pochiah Krishnamurthy, (12 July 1947 – 28 January 1999) was an Indian cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1971 against West Indies and one One Day International in 1976 against New Zealand. He toured England in 1971 as Farokh Engineer's backup, and New Zealand and West Indies in 1976 as Kirmani's deputy. He played first class cricket for Hyderabad for most of the 1970s, after making his debut in 1967.
Poll Ashokanand
Poll Ramchandrarao Ashokanand (born 27 November 1940) is an Indian former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Hyderabad, Madras and Mysore between 1957 and 1972.
Polly Umrigar
BatterPahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar (28 March 1926 – 7 November 2006) was an Indian cricketer. He played in the Indian cricket team (1948 – 1962) and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat. Umrigar played mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowled occasional medium pace and off spin.
Pondicharry Rangaraj
Pondicharry Rangaraj (born 17 May 1968) is an Indian former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Hyderabad in 1989/90.
Ponnuswami Sitaram
BowlerPonnuswami Sitaram (22 July 1932 – 12 September 1995) was an Indian cricketer born in Bangalore, who played for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy. A right-arm medium-pace bowler, Sitaram was an Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year in 1963. He toured Pakistan with the Indian Starlets in 1959–60.
Ponnuswamy Rangaswamy
Ponnuswamy Rangaswamy (born 13 August 1964) is an Indian weightlifter. He won three gold medals in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the bantamweight category. He represented India in the men's bantamweight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Pooja Chaudhary
Pooja Olla (born 17 June 2002) is an Indian middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 m and 1500 m.
Pooja Dhanda
Pooja Dhanda (born 1 January 1994) is an Indian wrestler from Budana village of Hisar district in Haryana, who won Bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships at Budapest in 57 kg weight class. She won Silver medals at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast in 60 kg and 57 kg category respectively. The grappler also won a Bronze at the 2014 Asian Wrestling Championship.
Pooja Gehlot
Pooja Gehlot (born 15 March 1997) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won the bronze medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. She also won a silver medal at the 2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships in the 53 kg category.
Pooja Ghatkar
Pooja Ghatkar (born 1989) is an Indian professional sports shooter. She competes in the women's 10 meter air rifle event.
Pooja Hathwala
Pooja Hathwala is an Indian kabaddi player. She was part of the team that won the gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games.
Pooja Jatyan
Pooja Jatyan (born 1998) is a para archer from Haryana. She is the first para athlete from India to take part in an Olympic Archery event at the Rio Paralympics 2016. She took part in the recurve women's open competition and qualified for the Rio event at the final world qualifier in the Czech Republic in 2016.
Pooja Kadian
Pooja Kadian (born 1 October 1991 is an Indian Wushu player. She won Silver Medal in invitational sports of Wushu at the 9th World Games at Cali in Colombia, in Women's Sanda 60 kg. Kadian previously won gold in the 12th South Asian Games and alsobagged silver medals in the World Games 2013 and the World Championship in 2013 and 2015.
Pooja Kanwar
Pooja Kanwar (born 15 April 2003) is a handball player from Rajasthan. She plays for the India women's national handball team as right wing. She plays for Rajasthan in the domestic events.
Pooja Khanna
Pooja Khanna is India's first ever Paralympic Archery player. She debuted at the 2016 Rio Paralympics at the age of 25 and was the only archer from India among all 19 athletes sent to the Games. She secured a fifth-place in the final Paralympic Qualifier which secured India's spot in the 2016 Olympics under World Quota Recurve Women Open in the Czech Republic 2016.
Pooja Pooja
Pooja Sihag (born 17 July 1997) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.
Pooja Rani
Pooja Rani Bohra (born 17 February 1991) is an Indian boxer. She is a two time Asian Champion and has won a bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games in the 75 kg event. She has represented India in the 75 kg event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she reached the quarterfinals and finished fifth.
Pooja Sahasrabudhe
Pooja Sahasrabudhe is an Indian table tennis player from Thane, Maharashtra. She comes from a humble middle-class background, and was born and brought up in Thane, Maharashtra. She took to Table tennis at the age of 9 in the year 2000 and showed keen interest and great talent in the sport.
Pooja Sharma
Pooja Sharma born 15 December 1984 is representative for India in the sport of Kabaddi. She was a member of the kabaddi team that won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou.
Pooja Singh
Pooja Hansraj Singh (born 21 February 2007) is an Indian high jumper. She won the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Championships and the silver medal at the 2026 Asian Indoor Championships.
Pooja Surve
Pooja Surve is an Indian former rhythmic gymnast. She represented India at international competitions and competed at two World championships, the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Japan and the 2010 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow. In 2010, she was the only rhythmic gymnast from India to qualify for the individual final at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Poojashree Venkatesha
Poojashree Venkatesha (born 27 July 1990) is an Indian former tennis player, primarily competing on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won a silver medal for her native country in the women's singles event at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games.
Poonam Poonia
Poonam Subhash Poonia (born 12 December 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Services. He made his first-class debut on 1 October 2015 in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy. He made his List A debut for Services in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 25 February 2017.
Poonam Rani
Poonam Rani (born 8 February 1993) is an Indian field hockey player from Hisar, Haryana who was selected to represent India at the 2016 Olympics. She is said to have been inspired to play hockey after watching the India win the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England.
Poonam Yadav
BowlerPoonam Yadav (born 24 August 1991) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the national women's cricket team as a leg-spin bowler. She made her debut in International cricket on 5 April 2013 in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match against Bangladesh. Yadav's Test debut, on 16 November 2014, was against South Africa and her ODI debut, on 12 April 2013, was against Bangladesh.
Poonish Mehta
Poonish Mehta (born 4 November 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Haryana. He made his List A debut on 13 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 7 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Poorva Shetye
Poorva Kiran Shetye (born 12 March 1993), is an Indian International Swimmer, who is specialized in 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. Poorva still holds the National Record at the National Games for 50 m Breast Stroke. Poorva was awarded Maharashtra government's most prestigious "Shiv Chhatrapati Award" in 2008 by the then Chief Minister, Prithviraj Chavan.
Poorvisha Ram
Poorvisha S. Ram (born 24 January 1995) is an Indian badminton player who specializes in doubles and mixed doubles. As of February 2020, she is ranked 48 in doubles.
Popy Hazarika
Popy Hazarika (born 8 December 1998) is an Indian weightlifter. She won a Silver medal at 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent. In July 2022 she placed Seventh in the women's 59 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Pottimuthyala Ramesh Kumar
Pottimuthyala Ramesh Kumar (born 13 July 1964) is an Indian former cricketer. He played five first-class matches for Hyderabad between 1989 and 1993.
Poulomi Ghatak
Poulomi Ghatak (Bengali: পৌলমী ঘটক; born 3 January 1983) is a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships (1996, 1998 and 1999) as well as seven senior national championships between 1998 and 2016. In 1998 she won both the senior national and junior national championships.
Prabagaran
Prabhagaran S, commonly known as Prabha, is a member of India's men's national volleyball team. He wears jersey #13. He currently plays for Kochi Blue Spikers in Pro Volleyball League.
Prabhakar Gupte
BatterPrabhakar Gupte (31 January 1910 – death date unknown) was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Maharashtra. He was born in Poona.
Prabhat Koli
Prabhat Raju Koli (born 27 July 1999) is an Indian open water swimmer based in Mumbai. In 2018, Koli was awarded with the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, which was presented by Ramnath Kovind, the President of India. He was also awarded with Shiv Chhatrapati Award by the Maharashtra government.
Prabhjot Singh
Prabhjot Singh is an Indian former field hockey player who played for the Indian national hockey team. He is best known for his fast and attacking play.
Prabhsimran Singh
WicketkeeperPrabhsimran Singh (born 10 August 2000) is an Indian cricketer. He represents Punjab in domestic cricket and Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League.