Basant Mohanty

Bowling Allrounder

Age 39 years

DOB 24 Nov 1986

Born to Chintamani Mohanty and Minati Mohanty, Basant Mohanty started his career as a leg-break bowler. Heavily inpsired by Mushtaq Ahmed, the lanky medium pacer wanted to emulate his idol. But then switched to bowling leg-cutters to start off and then the rest as they say is history. Had it not been his propensity to injuries far too often, Odisha pace spearhead Basant Mohanty would have surely donned the Indian jersey, at least for once...