Rajeev Nayyar

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{{short description|Indian cricketer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Rajeev Nayyar
| image =
| country = India
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|3|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Chamba, Himachal Pradesh|Chamba]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], India
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Leg break]] [[googly]]
| role = Batsman

| club1 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1986–2006}}
| clubnumber1 =

| columns = 2
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 96
| runs1 = 6,881
| bat avg1 = 44.97
| 100s/50s1 = 20/32
| top score1 = 271
| deliveries1 = 3,239
| wickets1 = 39
| bowl avg1 = 52.23
| fivefor1 = 2
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 7/93
| catches/stumpings1 = 53/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 50
| runs2 = 1,142
| bat avg2 = 32.62
| 100s/50s2 = 0/10
| top score2 = 87
| deliveries2 = 619
| wickets2 = 17
| bowl avg2 = 33.35
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = n/a
| best bowling2 = 4/17
| catches/stumpings2 = 22/–

| date = 18 December
| year = 2016
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/31814.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Rajeev Nayyar''' (born 28 March 1968) is a former Indian [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]]er who played for [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]. In 1999, he set the record for the longest first-class [[innings]] of all time by batting for 1,015 minutes (16 hours and 55 minutes) in a [[Ranji Trophy]] match against [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="record">{{cite web|title=Records / First-class matches / Batting records / Longest individual innings (by minutes)|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283145.html|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="OTD">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149140.html |title=Three cricketers go to prison |accessdate=3 November 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

==Career==
Nayyar was born on 28 March 1968 in the town of [[Chamba, Himachal Pradesh|Chamba]]. He made his first-class debut at the age of 18 for his home state [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]] during the [[1986–87 Ranji Trophy]], one year after the state was granted [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]'s accreditation.<ref name="cricbuzz"/> A right-handed middle-order batsman, Nayyar went on to represent Himachal Pradesh for 20 seasons and also served as its [[captain (cricket)|captain]] in several matches. He appeared in 96 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches and scored 6,881 runs, at an [[Batting average (cricket)|average]] close to 45, with 20 [[century (cricket)|hundreds]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rajeev Nayyar|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/7/7852/7852.html|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref> He scored the first hundred by a Himachal Pradesh batsman in 1988 and captained the team to its maiden win in a [[Ranji Trophy]] match in 1990.<ref>{{cite news|title=Himachal`s Ranji player Rajeev quits first class cricket|url=http://zeenews.india.com/sports/cricket/domestic-cricket-2012/himachal-s-ranji-player-rajeev-quits-first-class-cricket_16237.html|accessdate=18 December 2016|work=Zee News|date=30 December 2008}}</ref> He also bowled part-time [[leg spin]], picking 39 first-class [[Wicket#Dismissing a batsman|wickets]] including two five-wicket hauls and was the first Himachal Pradesh [[bowling (cricket)|bowler]] to take seven wickets in an [[innings]].<ref name="cricbuzz"/>

During the [[1995–96 Ranji Trophy]], Nayyar scored three back-to-back hundreds and earned a place in the [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]] team. He then played for [[India A cricket team|India A]] in 1996 in a match against the touring [[South Africa national cricket team|South African]] team.<ref name="list">{{cite web|title=First-Class Matches played by Rajeev Nayyar|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/7/7852/First-Class_Matches.html|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref> Playing for North Zone in the [[1999–2000 Duleep Trophy]], he had scores of 118 against [[South Zone cricket team|South Zone]], 88 against [[Central Zone cricket team|Central Zone]] in the semifinal and 105 [[not out]] in the final against [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]].<ref name="cricbuzz">{{cite news|last1=Bhattacharya|first1=Aditya|title=Rajeev Nayyar, Himachal Pradesh cricket's marathon man|url=http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/69045/rajeev-nayyar-himachal-pradesh-crickets-marathon-man|accessdate=18 December 2016|work=Cricbuzz|date=14 November 2014}}</ref>

Nayyar played his last first-class match in January 2006 and announced his retirement in December 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nayyar quits first-class cricket|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/384843.html|accessdate=18 December 2016|work=ESPNcricinfo|date=31 December 2008}}</ref>

===Longest first-class innings===
Nayyar shot to fame in November 1999, when he broke the record for the longest innings in the history of first-class cricket. He batted for 1,015 minutes in his innings of 271 against [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]] during a match of the [[1999–00 Ranji Trophy]] in his home ground Chamba, breaking the previous record of 970 minutes set by [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]]'s [[Hanif Mohammad]] in a [[Test cricket|Test]] against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] in [[Pakistani cricket team in the West Indies in 1957–58|1958]].<ref name="record"/><ref name="breaks">{{cite news|last1=Ramchand|first1=Partab|title=Rajiv Nayyar breaks World record|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/83039.html|accessdate=18 December 2016|work=ESPNcricinfo|date=4 November 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Longest individual first-class innings (male)|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-individual-first-class-innings-(male)|publisher=Guinness World Records|accessdate=16 January 2017}}</ref> Nayyar, captain of Himachal Pradesh, began his innings at the fall of his team's first wicket in the 11th [[over (cricket)|over]] on the second day of the match. He reached 89 at the close of the second day's play and was batting on 170 at [[Stump (cricket)#End of the day's play|stumps]] on day three. On the fourth and final day's play, he became the first batsman from Himachal Pradesh to score a first-class double hundred and was [[dismissal (cricket)|dismissed]] [[bowled]] for 271 from 728 [[delivery (cricket)|balls]] in the 250th over of Himachal Pradesh's innings.<ref name="breaks"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Himachal Pradesh v Jammu and Kashmir in 1999/00|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/68/68562.html|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref> {{As of|December 2021}}, Nayyar's innings remains the only instance in which a batsman has batted for more than 1000 minutes in an innings in first-class cricket.<ref name="record"/>

==Personal life==
Nayyar has an [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] degree from the National University of [[Shimla]]. After his playing career, he worked as director at the Swami Devidayal College in [[Panchkula]].<ref name="cricbuzz"/> {{As of|October 2016}}, he works as a selector for the [[Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Found Anurag Thakur to be an average player: Ex-J&K bowler|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sports/cricket/071016/anurag-thakur-was-my-first-ball-victim-in-his-only-ranji-match-jammu-bowler.html|accessdate=18 December 2016|work=Deccan Chronicle|date=7 October 2016}}</ref>

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