nayan mongia Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
nayan mongia is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Nayan Ramlal Mongia
Born
December 19, 1969, Baroda, Gujarat
Age
53 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 44 | 140 | - | - |
Inn | 68 | 96 | - | - |
Runs | 1442 | 1272 | - | - |
Avg | 24.03 | 20.19 | - | - |
SR | 38.54 | 68.91 | - | - |
HS | 152 | 69 | - | - |
NO | 8 | 33 | - | - |
100s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 6 | 2 | - | - |
4s | 159 | 95 | - | - |
6s | 5 | 8 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 44 | 140 | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Baroda
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
On his first tour to England, he served as an understudy to More. However, he managed to impress England keeper Alan Knott, who reckoned that Mongia was a natural keeper. Following the departure of More, Mongia became the full time keeper for India during the 90's.
His razor-sharp reflexes, combined with his competent batting skills, made him a valuable asset. In the ODI format, he was chosen to be a pinch-hitter in the middle order as well as in the opening position. He chipped in with quick-fire cameos but was becoming inconsistent. His crowning achievement was during the Delhi Test against Australia in 1996.
Promoted to open the Indian batting, Mongia survived some hostile bowling from Glenn McGrath and Paul Reiffel as he hung in for eight hours to score a brilliant 152. This remains the highest score by an Indian wicket-keeper in Tests. In his eight hour long stay at the crease, Mongia showed remarkable discipline and composure.
He was one of the best keepers to the spinners in India. Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and several other Indian spinners have been helped by Mongia's terrific keeping on turning tracks in India. However, his off-field problems continued to plague him.
He was once accused of batting slowly in an ODI against the West Indies in Kanpur in 1994. Needing 63 runs to win off 54 balls, Mongia was with Manoj Prabhakar as the pair crawled along to give West Indies victory by 46 runs. Mongia gobbled up 21 balls for his four runs while Prabhakar slowly made his way to a century. His name featured in the match-fixing probe and was dropped from the team in 2001.
Mongia could not find his form and was dropped from the Baroda team in 2004 and he duly announced his retirement the same year. He worked as the coach of the Thailand team and currently works as a cricketing analyst. It is only a shame that Mongia could not achieve greater things in his playing career.
By Siddharth Vishwanathan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Always cheerful, always smiling, Nayan Mongia's approach to the game has been refreshingly different. Friendly, modest and unassuming by nature, he has always been one of the easily approachable cricketers. But once the action starts, Mongia has always been dead serious about the game. A professional approach marks his batting and wicketkeeping. On his first tour of England in 1990 he impressed no less a personality than Alan Knott, who judged him to be a natural. After a fairly long spell as understudy to Kiran More, Mongia made it to the Indian team in the mid 90s and from then on was been India's No. 1. An efficent wicketkeeper, Mongia is equally at home keeping to Srinath or Kumble. He has displayed lightning quick reflexes while diving to complete a catch or while bringing off a smart stumping. As a batsman, Mongia has proved time and again his immense value to the side in the middle order. But he has had success while opening the innings too, a fact symbolised by his gallant 152 against Australia at New Delhi in 1996. But he will probably be remembered more for off-the-field controversies. He was been dropped from the India team for apparently not trying to win a match, suspended after showing dissent at an umpiring decision, and banned after suspicions of being involved in the match-fixing crisis of the late 1990s. He retired at the end of 2004, after being left out by Baroda, his home state.
Partab Ramchand December 2004