Nayan Mongia

Nayan Mongia
Personal information
Born (1969-12-19) 19 December 1969
Baroda, Gujarat, India
Batting Right-hand bat
Bowling –
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs
Matches 44 140
Runs scored 1442 1272
Batting average 24.03 20.19
100s/50s 1/6 -/2
Top score 152 69
Balls bowled – –
Wickets - -
Bowling average – –
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – –
Best bowling – –
Catches/stumpings 99/8 110/45
Source: espncricinfo, 4 February 2006

Nayan Ramlal Mongia  pronunciation  (born 19 December 1969 in Baroda) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.

Playing career

First Tour of England

When he first toured England in 1990, he impressed Alan Knott, who claimed Mongia was a natural. Having spent many years as India's second wicketkeeper after Kiran More, Mongia first made it into the team in the mid-1990s and was from then on the number one choice for wicketkeeper.

Opening and highest score

Mongia scored his debut Test century against Australia in the one-off Test during the latter's tour of India in 1996–97, in Delhi. Opening the batting, he scored 152 on a "slow turning wicket of low bounce".[1] Writing for the Indian Express, former cricketer Ian Chappell called it an innings of "skill, patience and concentration".[2] Mongia was dropped from the team after dissent and allegations of match-fixing.[3] Mongia retired from first class cricket in December 2004.[4]

First class career

In 1983 first-class matches for Baroda cricket team and West Zone cricket team making his debut in November 1989. He took 353 catches and 43 stumpings and scored over 7000 runs. In international cricket, Mongia played 44 Tests ending his Test career in an epic Kolkata Test against Australia cricket team in March 2001.[5]

Match against West Indies

On October 30, 1994, he was involved in match fixing (allegedly). Indians were chasing a target of 258 in 50 Overs . India could have chased the target until he came to bat and scored merely 4 runs off 21 balls along with Manoj Prabhakar who played a slow knock for his selfish milestone (102 off 154) as a result of which India lost the match by 46 runs after requiring 63 from 9 overs.

Coaching career

In 2004, he was named as a coach of Thailand national cricket team. He was coach for 2004 ACC Trophy in Malaysia. Along with national team, Mongia was also named coach of Thailand national under-19 cricket team as well.[6]

He was appointed as wicket keeping coach for Vizag Victors

References

  1. ↑ Magazine, Pradeep (12 October 1996). "Marvellous Mongia floors 'em". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 20 April 1997. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Chappell, Ian (12 October 1996). "Mongia's effort adds to selectors' headache". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 26 May 1997. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Match-fixing report: The main points". BBC. 1 November 2000. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "Nayan Mongia announces retirement". The Hindu. 22 December 2004. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  5. ↑ Mongia announces his retirement
  6. ↑ Nayan Mongia to coach Thailand
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