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Full name Manoj Kumar Tiwary
Born November 14, 1985, Howrah, Bengal
Current age 22 years 185 days
Major teams India,Bengal,Bengal Under-19s,Delhi Daredevils,India Green,India Under-19s
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
1
1
0
2
2
2.00
16
12.50
0
0
0
0
0
0
First-class
24
35
3
1738
210*
54.31
3090
56.24
6
2
22
0
List A
37
33
4
880
89
30.34
1046
84.13
0
8
19
0
Twenty20
13
11
3
329
58
41.12
267
123.22
0
2
36
2
10
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
24
886
427
6
2/42
2/42
71.16
2.89
147.6
0
0
0
List A
37
450
411
11
2/30
2/30
37.36
5.48
40.9
0
0
0
Twenty20
13
5
72
85
6
3/19
3/19
14.16
7.08
12.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Only ODI
Australia v India at Brisbane, Feb 3, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
2004/05
Last First-class
Bengal v Andhra at Kolkata, Dec 25-27, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
2003/04
Last List A
Bengal v Saurashtra at Visakhapatnam, Apr 10, 2008 scorecard
Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers at Delhi, May 15, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Manoj Tiwary symbolises Bengal's new brand of cricket, one built on youth and fearlessness. Within two years of first-class cricket, he has become the most talked-about name outside the Indian team, a refreshing fact in this day and age when it's largely international players and Under-19 stars who get most of the attention. Tiwary has a minimalistic approach towards batting; bowlers are meant to be hit, and the purpose of batting anywhere is to make runs. He goes about doing that in the most aggressive of manners. He has idolised Kevin Pietersen, evident through his mannerism on the field, and favours the front foot more.
After being shunted up and down in his first full season in 2005-06, he got a more certain No. 4 position in the next season and made it his own. He scored three scores of 150-plus and his average of 99.50 took his overall first-class average to 57.50.
At 21, he has already led Bengal to a Cooch Behar Trophy triumph, and was also asked to captain the state in the Twenty20 championships, despite the presence of Deep Dasgupta and Sourav Ganguly. An aggressive and passionate Bengal cricketing fraternity has already nicknamed him chota dada (in reference to Ganguly's nickname, dada) and, on the back of India's World Cup debacle, was fast-tracked into the one-day side for the tour to Bangladesh in 2007. He made his one-day debut in Australia in February 2008.
Sidharth Monga February 2008
