Full Name

Narendra Deepchand Hirwani

Born

October 18, 1968, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

Age

55y 153d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak Googly

Playing Role

Bowler

RELATIONS

Narendra Hirwani started as a legspinner in Test cricket before Shane Warne made leg-spin fashionable again. His Test career started with an almighty bang when, as a bespectacled 19-year-old, he took 16 wickets on his debut, against West Indies at Madras in 1987-88. "He was aided, it must be stressed, by a deplorably under-prepared pitch," said Wisden's correspondent, Dicky Rutnagur. And though Hirwani took 20 further wickets in his next three Test appearances, his fortunes changed when he left the spin-friendly surfaces of India. The magic never quite returned, and the arrival of Anil Kumble sentenced him largely to domestic cricket. However, he was a stalwart on the domestic circuit, finishing with 723 wickets from 167 matches, over 400 of which came for his home state of Madhya Pradesh. In the 1996-97 season he played for Bengal, taking 29 wickets at 23.13. He retired in 2006, ending a 23-year first-class career, and was appointed to the national selection panel in 2008.
Cricinfo staff September 2008

Narendra Hirwani Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests172842981987668/6116/13630.102.7765.1241
ODIs1818960719234/434/4331.264.4941.7300
FC167-42890198017328/52-27.052.7758.5-5410
List A70-35612561754/424/4234.144.3147.4400

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests17221254175.40--006050
ODIs1873842.002927.58000020
FC1671897511795910.34--01--490
List A703317121257.56--00--140
Narendra Hirwani portrait

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Recent Matches of Narendra Hirwani

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
India Snrs vs Pakistan Snr1*2/6327-Feb-2007DelhiOTHER
India Snrs vs Pakistan Snr--3/6825-Feb-2007KozhikodeOTHER
India Snrs vs Pakistan Snr42/3223-Feb-2007UdaipurOTHER
M. Pradesh vs J + K63/65 & 0/2926-Dec-2005IndoreFC
M. Pradesh vs Kerala00/6117-Dec-2005IndoreFC

Photos of Narendra Hirwani

Narendra Hirwani, Portrait, 1999
Narendra Hirwani, Portrait, 2000
Narendra Hirwani, Portrait
Narendra Hirwani appealing
Narendra Hirwani bowls
Narendra Hirwani took 6 for 59