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Narendra Hirwani

India

Full name Narendra Deepchand Hirwani

Born October 18, 1968, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

Current age 41 years 24 days

Major teams India, Air India, Bengal, Madhya Pradesh

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	17	22	12	54	17	5.40			0	6	0	5
ODIs	18	7	3	8	4	2.00	29	27.58	0	0	0	2
First-class	167	189	75	1179	59	10.34			1			49
List A	70	33	17	121	25	7.56			0			14

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	17	28	4298	1987	66	8/61	16/136	30.10	2.77	65.1	2	4	1
ODIs	18	18	960	719	23	4/43	4/43	31.26	4.49	41.7	3	0	0
First-class	167		42890	19801	732	8/52		27.05	2.77	58.5		54	10
List A	70		3561	2561	75	4/42	4/42	34.14	4.31	47.4	4	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v West Indies at Chennai, Jan 11-15, 1988 scorecard
Last Test	India v South Africa at Kolkata, Nov 27-Dec 1, 1996 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v West Indies at Gwalior, Jan 22, 1988 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v India at Melbourne, Jan 18, 1992 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1984/85
Last First-class	Madhya Pradesh v Jammu & Kashmir at Indore, Dec 26-29, 2005 scorecard
List A span	1986/87 - 2000/01

Profile

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