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Dinesh Mongia

India

Full name Dinesh Mongia

Born April 17, 1977, Chandigarh

Current age 32 years 222 days

Major teams India, Chandigarh Lions, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Punjab

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
ODIs	57	51	7	1230	159*	27.95	1721	71.47	1	4	122	8	21
T20Is	1	1	0	38	38	38.00	45	84.44	0	0	4	1	1
First-class	121	183	19	8028	308*	48.95			27	28			121
List A	198	184	27	5535	159*	35.25			10	26			85
Twenty20	32	30	0	633	50	21.10	557	113.64	0	1	69	7	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
ODIs	57	21	640	571	14	3/31	3/31	40.78	5.35	45.7	0	0	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	121		4037	1687	46	4/34		36.67	2.50	87.7		0	0
List A	198		3834	2976	116	5/44	5/44	25.65	4.65	33.0	5	1	0
Twenty20	32	29	523	535	28	3/19	3/19	19.10	6.13	18.6	0	0	0

Career statistics

ODI debut	India v Australia at Pune, Mar 28, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI	Bangladesh v India at Dhaka (SBNS), May 12, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1995/96
Last First-class	Hyderabad (India) v Punjab at Hyderabad (Decc), Jan 10-12, 2007 scorecard
List A debut	1996/97
Last List A	Bangladesh v India at Dhaka (SBNS), May 12, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Lancashire v Leicestershire at Manchester, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Punjab v Tamil Nadu at Mumbai (BS), Apr 21, 2007 scorecard

Profile

Dinesh Mongia has quietly gone about the job of accumulating runs without ever being showered with the encomiums reserved for flashier but less effective players. Having made his Punjab debut in 1995-96, he was a steady if unspectacular performer until the 2000-01 season when he took domestic run-getting to another level, forcing his way into the national team with a string of big innings. Pugnacious and dogged, he lacks the natural grace of most left-handers, but possesses a wide range of attacking strokes. He has done a sterling job when given a chance in the one-day side, and hammered 159 in the series decider against Zimbabwe at Guwahati in March 2002. Suspicions remained, however, that kinks in his technique could be exposed on more challenging tracks abroad, and indifferent displays in England resulted in him being relegated to a bit-part role in the tours that followed. He forced his way back into the 2003 World Cup squad, where India lost in the final, but failed to set the world alight. In 2004, he played club cricket in England in an attempt to regain his place, and ended up standing in for Carl Hooper as one of Lancashire's overseas players where he was a popular player. He then joined Leicestershire where is skills were especially useful in Twenty20 cricket and remained on the fringes of India's one-day side, featuring in four matches during the six-month period between September 2006 and March 2007. After India's ignominous World Cup exit, of which he wasn't a part, he was picked in the squad to tour Bangladesh in May 2007.
Mongia then took his skills to the Chandigarh Lions in the ICL, before severing ties with the unsanctioned league and returning to the official fold in June 2009.
Dileep Premachandran June 2009