Nayan Mongia was accused of match-fixing against West Indies as he gobbled up 21 balls to make a mere 4 runs along with Manoj Prabhakar who made a slow century.

In his first tour to England in 1990, he impressed Alan Knott, who claimed Mongia was a player with natural talent.

Mongia has spent many years as India's second successful wicket-keeper after Kiran More, Mongia made his debut in the Indian international cricket team in the mid-1990s and from there, he was considered as India's number one choice as a wicket keeper Mongia scored his maiden Test century against Australia in the one-off Test during the latter's tour of India in 1996–97, in Delhi.

Opening the batting, he scored 152 on a "slow turning wicket of low bounce".

[1] Writing for the Indian Express, former cricketer Ian Chappell called it an innings of "skill, patience and concentration".

Per Lele 'In 1994's Kanpur ODI against West Indies, Mongia deliberately played slow and scored 16 runs in 9 overs, India lost that match'.