| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Manoj Kumar Tiwary | |||
| Born | 14 November 1985 Howrah, Bengal, India |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm Legbreak googly | |||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | India | |||
| Only ODI (cap 171) | 3 February 2008 v Australia | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2004/05–present | Bengal | |||
| 2008–2009 | Delhi Daredevils | |||
| 2010–present | Kolkata Knight Riders | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | ODIs | FC | List A | T20 |
| Matches | 6 | 52 | 77 | 67 |
| Runs scored | 165 | 3,957 | 2,356 | 1,453 |
| Batting average | 33.0 | 59.95 | 38.62 | 33.02 |
| 100s/50s | 1/0 | 15/10 | 1/17 | 0/8 |
| Top score | 104* | 267 | 104* | 75 |
| Balls bowled | 60 | 1,895 | 780 | 216 |
| Wickets | 1 | 18 | 1199 | 10 |
| Bowling average | 69.0 | 54.75 | 48.12 | 26.20 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | n/a | 0 |
| Best bowling | 1/28 | 2/38 | 2/29 | 3/19 |
| Catches/stumpings | 3/– | 52/– | 24/– | 33/– |
| Source: CricInfo, 11 December 2011 | ||||
Manoj Kumar Tiwary (Bangla: মনোজ কুমার তিবারী), (Hindi: मनोज तिवारी) (born November 14, 1985) is an Indian cricketer, from Howrah, West Bengal.
An aggressive right-handed batsman, Tiwary has gained attention from selectors and fans through his strokeplay and high run scoring in Indian Domestic Cricket. Because of his front foot play and ability to attack the bowler by charging down the pitch, many have compared his batting style to England's Kevin Pietersen. Along with being a solid batsmen, he also bowls useful legspinners part-time and is athletic in the field.
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Tiwary plays domestic cricket for Bengal. His quick rise gained the attention of national selectors by just taking 14 games to score over 1000 runs, at an average of 56. He has a highest score of 210 not out but his best innings to date was arguably his match winning 151* in the 4th innings to give his side victory over Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy Super League semi final of 2006/07. Bengal lost to Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy final and Tiwary finished the campaign with 796 runs at 99.50 from his 7 matches. The season aggregate was the highest ever for Bengal in the Ranji Trophy, going past of record of Arun Lal which was set in 1993-94.[1] In the 2011 Ranji Trophy Tiwary went past his highest score of 210,he scored 267 against madhya pradesh.
After India's failure at the 2007 World Cup, veteran players Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were rested for India's tour of Bangladesh. Tiwary was named in the ODI squad, however he failed to make the playing eleven after sustaining an injury in training, the morning he was supposed to debut. He eventually made his debut against Australia in the 2008 Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series in which he scored only 2 runs in his only innings. He was later included in the India team for the West Indies tour of 2011, as a replacement for Yuvraj Singh, who opted out of the series due to a lung infection. Manoj Tiwary played the 4th and 5th ODI in the series. He later got picked for England's tour of India in October. He played in the 5th ODI and got 24 runs. He also played the only T20 and scored 15 runs. Tiwary was subsequently named in the squad for the ODI's against West Indies in November-December. He played in the 5th ODI at Chennai when India was down by 2 wickets for only 1 run in the very first over of the match. He then went on build a solid innings which got him his scoring maiden ODI century (104 not out) despite having cramps and retired soon after getting his century.[1]. Eventually India won the match by 34 runs and he was awarded the Man Of The Match for this match-winning knock.
Tiwary was signed by the Delhi DareDevils of the Indian Premier League for a sum of USD 675,000. He was traded to the Kolkata Knight Riders in exchange for Moises Henriques before the 2010 IPL season. In the auction for 4th edition of the Indian Premier League, he was signed by the Kolkata Knight Riders for a sum of USD 475,000.
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