After a career of a thirteen-year and an experience of 99 first-class games for Mumbai and move to Puducherry towards the end, all-rounder Abhishek Nayar has recently announced his retirement from first-class cricket. Nayar had sent BCCI a letter to inform the board about his decision of retirement from domestic cricket in September, when he was helping the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League, according to a report in TOI.
It's been an absolute honour and I'm grateful for all the support I've received through my playing career.Gave it my everything and like they say 'no regrets no comebacks'.its time to move on…thank you everyone for… https://t.co/oqYs3wK30u
— abhishek nayar (@abhisheknayar1) October 23, 2019
Abhishek Nayar has mentored the players like Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik and Unmukt Chand. He also played three One Day Internationals for India under MS Dhoni’s captaincy but was not included after that. Nayar played his first Ranji Trophy game for Mumbai in 2005 and played 98 more games before he was dropped during the 2017-2018 season. He then played for Puducherry as well. He has scored 5749 runs in 103 first-class matches which included 13 centuries and 32 fifties along with 173 wickets.
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Abhishek Nayar is currently the head coach and mentor of the KKR academy in Bangalore and also the deputy to Brendon McCullum at KKR also.
India test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane and former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum wished him after hearing the news and he also replied.
Thankss azzzuu🤗🤗🤗 happy memoriess….has been an amazing journey lots of memories https://t.co/FTmNFRofuq
— abhishek nayar (@abhisheknayar1) October 23, 2019
Thanks Baz…..it's going to be an amazing journey together my brother🤗🤗 https://t.co/107o74kkqt
— abhishek nayar (@abhisheknayar1) October 23, 2019
