Abhishek Nayar

Abhishek Nayar
Personal information
Full name Abhishek Mohan Nayar
Born 8 October 1983 (1983-10-08) (age 28)
Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right-arm Medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side India
ODI debut (cap 178) 3 July 2009 v West Indies
Last ODI 30 September 2009 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years Team
2005– Mumbai
2007– Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA T20
Matches 3 26 50 28
Runs scored 0 1,380 927 399
Batting average 40.58 25.75 23.47
100s/50s 0/0 3/7 1/3 0/0
Top score 0* 152 102 45*
Balls bowled 18 3,628 1,439 126
Wickets 0 56 38 6
Bowling average 28.62 32.84 28.33
5 wickets in innings 0 2 1 0
10 wickets in match n/a 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 0/17 6/45 6/28 3/13
Catches/stumpings 0/– 10/– 9/– 9/–
Source: CricketArchive, 28 November 2009

Abhishek Mohan Nayar (born October 8, 1983) is an Indian international cricketer. He plays first class cricket for Mumbai and also represents Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. He is selected for West Indies tour in 2009. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace.

Abhishek was born in Secundarabad to Keralite immigrants Mohan Nair and Lekha Nair. His parents were originally from Neyyattinkara in Kerala.

Notes

Abhishek Nayar is a useful right-arm medium-pacer who has time and again got Mumbai crucial breaktrhoughs in his young first-class career. He does not quite have the pace to be a regular attacking option, but it's with his left-hand batting that he becomes a natural selection. Capable of crease occupation as well as hitting the ball hard, Nayar chipped in with vital contributions in Mumbai's successful Ranji campaign in 2006. The first-class century narrowly eluded him for a time - he made 97 against Gujarat in 2006 - but when it came it was a big one, 152 against Karachi Urban in the Mohammad Nissar Trophy. Nayar was bought by the lucrative Indian Premier League's Mumbai franchise in early 2008 and enjoyed regular playing time as the tournament kicked off. In the final of the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy he made a vital 99 that helped set up Mumbai's 38th triumph and, after being on the fringes of the national side, was selected for ODI squad to tour West Indies in June. He was surprise called for IPL 2010 Semi Finals against Bangalore Royal Challengers after having sat out most of the tournament nursing an injury.

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