Basant Mohanty Suddenly Retired Between IND-NZ series, took 403 Wickets in his Career

Bengal vs Odisha Ranji Trophy 2023: The Indian team is currently playing a three T20 match series against New Zealand. At the same time, Ranji Trophy is being played in a very grand manner in domestic cricket. Now domestic cricket superstar fast bowler Basant Mohanty has announced his retirement. Due to this, a wave of despair has run among the fans. He was famous for bowling killers.

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Basant Mohanty took Retirement

Odisha’s 36-year-old fast bowler Basant Mohanty performed brilliantly in domestic cricket and won everyone’s heart, but he could never make it to Team India. He retired from cricket after the match against Bengal in Ranji Trophy.

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Against Bengal, he got the last wicket in the form of Manoj Tiwary. The special thing is that when Basant Mohanty made his debut in 2007. Then he got the wicket of Manoj Tiwari only. Manoj Tiwari has called him a legend by tweeting on his retirement.

403 Wickets in Career

In a career of 15 years for Odisha, Basant Mohanty won them many matches on his own. Played a total of 105 first class matches in 15 years. Basant took 403 wickets during this period. He managed to do the feat of taking 10 wickets in the match three times. At the same time, he took five wickets in an innings 23 times. Apart from this, he has taken 43 wickets in 31 List-A matches and 20 wickets in 21 T20 matches.