India and veteran Bengal batter Manoj Tiwary has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Tiwary represented India in 12 ODIs and three T20Is, with his best knock in international cricket being an unbeaten 104 against West Indies in a 50-over game in Chennai in 2011. Apart from his sporadic appearances for India, Tiwary was a formidable figure in the Bengal batting line-up, making 9908 runs in 141 first-class matches, averaging 48.56, including hitting 29 centuries and 45 half-centuries, with an unbeaten 303 being his best score.