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Nayan Mongia, the former India Test wicketkeeper, has announced his retirement after being dropped by Baroda.
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- Early Days. Mongia was born in Vadodara, also known as Baroda. He made it to the Baroda team in the 1989-90 season, after he impressed in the India Under 19s in the 1987-88 season.
- Inauspicious Ranji debut. Mongia made his Ranji trophy debut against Saurashtra in November 1989. He caught a catch and then batting at number eight, scored a duck.
- Praised by Alan Knott. Thereon, Mongia had a good season. He scored 315 runs in just six games, scoring a hundred and fifty, he also had 15 victims. He then toured England and Alan Knott was impressed by his abilities.
- Star for Baroda. In the next domestic season, Mongia scored 555 runs in just five matches, scoring two hundreds and averaged 79! This was in addition to his exceptional work behind the stumps.
Feb 14, 2024 · Former Indian wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia has recalled how the recently deceased Dattajirao Gaekwad helped him resurrect his cricketing career in 1991. Gaekwad, who was India's oldest living Test...
Aug 23, 2014 · Mongia continued to feature in the domestic arena for Baroda until 2004, but had to make an unceremonious exit from there as well.
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- Early days: Mongia was born in Vadodara, also known as Baroda. He debuted for Baroda in 1989-90 and scalped 17 dismissals while scoring 305 runs.
- Inauspicious Ranji debut: In his debut game against Saurashtra, Mongia managed to take a catch and scored a duck batting at number 8.
- Star performer for Baroda: In only his second season, Mongia scored 555 runs in merely 5 matches at an average of a healthy looking 79. This was in addition to his exceptional work behind the stumps.
- Test debut: After the retirement of Kiran More, Nayan Mongia got a deserved national call. His first Test was against Sri Lanka in Lucknow in 1994. He impressed with the bat scoring 44 runs and furthermore by ensuring 5 dismissals behind the wicket.
Mongia could not find his form and was dropped from the Baroda team in 2004 and he duly announced his retirement the same year.
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Nov 11, 2005 · Mongia's story has always been that the dressing room was noisy and overcrowded; that the `general consensus' as he went to bat was that wickets mustn't be lost to keep the...
