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Nayan Mongia: The Pocket Dynamite Wicket-Keeper from Baroda

- Karthik Narayan

“A wicket keeper’s job is never done”. That is a quip that may be quoted any time in the history of cricket. While all the praises are showered upon the star batsmen, the super fast bowlers and the electric fielders, the show lights rarely do shine on these small people who do great and yet silent deeds. Nayan Ramlal Mongia is no stranger to that pack.

Born on Dec 19, 1969 at Vadodara (Baroda now), this quiet young man, made it to the Baroda team in the 1989-90 season after striking a rich haul in the India U-19s in the 1987-88 season. He had done really well with the bat and behind the stumps; in just 5 games, he impressed the Baroda selectors with 17 victims as keeper and had scored 305 runs.

The Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground at Rajkot is where it all started for Mongia, when he made his Ranji debut against Saurashtra in November 1989. He did not have a great role to play except take his first catch off the medium pacer Palkar. He walked in to bat at Number Eight, and spent very little time making a duck. He did open the second innings for Baroda, but did not have much to do as well.

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Statistics of Nayan Mongia's Career :

Test Matches : Batting and Fielding

    M    I   NO  Runs   HS    Ave     SR   100  50  Ct  St
   44   68    8  1442  152   24.03   38.53   1   6  99   8

    O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   5  10    SR  Econ
    -      -     -    -     -     -    -   -     -   -

    M   I   NO   Runs  HS   Ave     SR  100  50   Ct  St
   140 96   33   1272  69  20.19  68.90   0   2  110  44

    O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
    -      -     -    -    -     -      -   -     -    -