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Full name | Narendra Deepchand Hirwani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
18 October 1968 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right arm leg spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Mihir Hirwani (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Test debut (cap 180) | 11 January 1988 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 1 December 1996 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 67) | 22 January 1988 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 18 January 1992 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1984–2006 | Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Bengal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 September 2008 |
Narendra Deepchand Hirwani pronunciation (born 18 October 1968) is a leg spin bowler who played for India. He is mainly remembered for his success on his Test debut.
Hirwani came from a well-off family in Gorakhpur. His father owned a brick factory. Hirwani moved to Indore in his teenage where he stayed in a room near the ground under the guidance of the Madhya Pradesh cricketer Sanjay Jagdale.
Hirwani made his first class debut for Madhya Pradesh at the age of 16 and took five wickets on his debut. He did much better in the following seasons and took 23 wickets in an under-19 three Test series against Australia.
His big break came for India U-25 against the touring West Indians in 1987–88. He failed in the first innings but took all the six wickets to fall in the second. This got him selected to the Test team.
Hirwani's debut was in the final Test of the series at Madras. The wicket was underprepared. India won an important toss and made 382. Hirwani took three of the five West Indian wickets to fall on the second day. On the third morning, Hirwani clean-bowled Vivian Richards with a googly which the batsman failed to pick, and dismissed the remaining four batsmen to finish with 8 for 61. This made him only the fourth bowler to take eight wickets in an innings on debut.