FULL NAME: Debasis Mohanty
BORN: July 20, 1976 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
FAMILY: Son of Sarbeswar Mohanty and Manjula Mohanty, Debasis has three sisters.
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Riti Mukta Dash of Sambalpur since April 23, 2008.
PRESENT/PERMANENT ADDRESS: Plot No N-6/89 Nayapally, Bhubaneswar.
E-MAIL: Contact www.orisports.com
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Graduate
PROFESSION: Working as Deputy Manager in National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) at Bhubaneswar. He joined in the company in 1997.
TYPE OF PLAYER: Right-arm medium pace bowler and : right-hand lower middle-order batsman.
FIRST COACH: Late Kamal Ganguly
EARLY CAREER: Started playing cricket in 1991
FIRST CLUB: Sahid Sporting Club (Bhubaneswar)
CAREER STATISTICS:
Test debut: Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (SSC), August 9-13, 1997
Last Test: India v Sri Lanka at Mohali, November 19-23, 1997
ODI debut: India v Pakistan at Toronto, September 13, 1997
Last ODI: Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), July 22, 2001
First-class debut: Bengal at Eden Gardens, Calcutta on November 3, 1996
Last First-class match: Vs Haryana at Rohatak from December 15 to 17, 2010.
List A debut: Bengal vs Orissa at Eden Gardens, Calcutta on November 2, 1996.
Last List A: East Zone vs North Zone at Vadodara on Marcy 7, 2010.
Twenty20 debut: Orissa vs Jharkhand at Kolkata, April 3, 2007.
Last Twenty20: Orissa vs Punjab at Mumbai (BS), April 19, 2007.
CAREER PERFORMANCE:
TESTS: 2 matches, 1 innings, 1 not out, 0 runs, 61 overs, 4 wickets, 4/78 best bowling in an innings, 4/150 best bowling in a match, average 59.75.
ODIs: 45 matches, 11 innings, 6 not outs, 28 runs, highest score 18 not out, average 5.60, strike rate 49.12, catches 10: 332 overs, 1,662 runs, 57 wickets, 4/56 best bowling, 29.15 average.
FIRST CLASS: 117 matches, 156 innings, 42 not outs, 1,553 runs, 97 highest score, 13.62 average, 5 fifties, 47 catches. 3650 overs, 8,778 runs, 417 wickets, 10/46 best bowling in an innings, 21.05 average, 52.8 strike rate, 5 wkts in an innings 19 times, 10 wkts in a match 3 times.
LIST A: 129 matches, 56 innings, 26 not outs, 218 runs, 22 highest score, 7.26 average, 26 catches. Total 1004 overs, 4,295 runs, 160 wickets, 5/22 best bowling, 26.84 average, 5 wickets once.
TWENTY20: 8 matches, 3 innings, 12 runs, 12 highest score, 4.00 average, 75.00 strike rate, one catch. Bowled 27 overs, 183 runs 9 wickets, 2/24 best bowling, 20.33 average.
AWARDS/HONOURS:
* Received the Ekalabya Award in 1998
* Received the Sahid Sporting Maruti Estate Cricketer of Year award four times (1997, 2001, 2005 and 2007)
OTHER MEMORAL INFORMATION:
* Appointed member of All-India Senior Men Selection Committee by the BCCI on 24 December, 2020.
* On 30 March, 2020 donated Rs 2 lakh to Chief Minister Relief Fund for fight against COVID-19.
* He was appointed as member of the BCCI men’s Junior National Selection Committee on August 24, 2018.
* After functioning as the chief coach of Odisha Ranji team, he was replaced with Shiv Sundar
for the season 2017-2018.
* He enjoys the pride of being the first Test, ODI cricketer and the only World Cupper from Orissa.
* Bagged 10 wickets in six matches in the 1999 World Cup in England.
* He reckons taking the wicket of Aussie captain Steve Waugh in the World Cup as the most memorable moment of his career.
* During the World Cup, he enjoyed his visit to Buckingham Palace and the meeting with the Queen.
* Beating Bengal on Bengal in a Ranji Trophy match in 2001 as another glorious moment of his career.
* Similarly, bagging all ten wickets against South Zone in Duleep Trophy match at Agartala (Tripura) in 2001 was another mile stone of his career.
* He along with Shiv Sundar Das passed the Level-I coaching course, conducted by Cricket Association of Bengal at Kolkata from July 31 to August 5, 2011. The duo`s names for the course were specaially recommended by National Cricket Academy, Bangalore.
* Made his debut as a coach in the East Zone U-16 & U-19 residential camp for batting and fast bowling at Orissa Cricket Academy, Cuttack on September 21, 2011.
* Replaced Michael Bevan as the coach of Orissa Ranji Trophy team for the season 2011-12 on October 27, 2011.
* Nominated as a member of the Technical Committee of the BCCI for the third time on April 6, 2015.
PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 20 August, 2008
PROFILE LAST UPDAED: 25, 2020