All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

264 Debasis Mohanty East Zone v South Zone, 2000/01 Duleep Trophy Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala on 25, 26, 27 January 2001 (4-day match) Toss won by South Zone East Zone won by four wickets Umpires: RY Deshmukh, SL Shastri South Zone 113 (DS Mohanty 10-46) and 177 (Sukhvinder Singh 6-57); East Zone 124 (J Srinath 6-32) and 170-6 South Zone first innings S Sriram lbw b Mohanty 6 A Nand Kishore lbw b Mohanty 8 VVS Laxman b Mohanty 20 *RS Dravid c Dasgupta b Mohanty 0 R Vijay Bharadwaj c Dasgupta b Mohanty 0 +VST Naidu lbw b Mohanty 5 SB Joshi c Parida b Mohanty 32 AR Kapoor lbw b Mohanty 12 J Srinath b Mohanty 11 WD Balaji Rao not out 8 BKV Prasad b Mohanty 0 Extras (b 2, lb 2, nb 6, w 1) 11 Total (all out, 37 overs) 113 Fall of wickets 1-14, 2-16, 3-22, 4-22, 5-37, 6-49, 7-65, 8-102, 9-113, 10-113 East Zone bowling: DS Mohanty 19-5-46-10, Javed Zaman 15-4-47-0, P Jayachandra 3-0-16-0 East Zone: SS Das (capt), P Jayachandra, RR Parida, SS Raul, RS Gavaskar, SZ Zuffri, DB Dasgupta (wk), Sukhvinder Singh, US Chatterjee, DS Mohanty, Javed Zaman A lanky medium-pace bowler who when conditions helped could achieve considerable movement both ways, Debasis Mohanty was the first cricketer from Orissa, one of India’s weaker states, to be selected to play Test cricket. Mohanty made his first-class debut as a 20-year-old at the end of 1996. With nine wickets against Bengal, the eventual winners of the Ranji Trophy East Zone group, his impact was immediate. His prospects were exciting and his Test debut followed just nine months later at Colombo (against a Sri Lanka side that had declared at 952 for six in the previous Test a week before!). With first innings figures of four for 78, including three top order batsmen, he again made an immediate impression. He was less successful in the second innings taking 0 for 72 in 16 overs as Sanath Jayasuriya and P.A.de Silva both made centuries. Three months later he played his next Test. Match figures of 35 overs nought for 89 against Sri Lanka however did not endear him to the selectors, and his second Test appearance was his last. Although his figures had been mixed, arguably he should perhaps have been given more chances to prove himself.