New Delhi. Test cricket is considered the most difficult of the three formats of cricket. This format tests a player’s sporting skills as well as his fitness the toughest test. Since there is no limit on overs in this format, batting or bowling for long periods of time becomes very tiring. Many times a bowler has to bowl such a long spell for the sake of the team that his shoulders start responding. An Indian spinner holds the record of bowling 59 overs in an innings of Test cricket without taking a break. Right arm wrist spinner Narendra Hirwani did this.
Hirwani, popularly known as ‘Hiru’ among his fellow players, made this record in the Oval Test against England in August 1990 (England Vs India). Hirwani had bowled 59 consecutive overs without any break during the second innings of England in this test. In this, keeping 18 overs maiden, he took one wicket for 137 runs. This is the longest spell of bowling without a break in Test history. Let us tell you, the record for the longest bowling spell in an innings in Test cricket is in the name of West Indies’ Sonny Ramadhin (98 overs, against England, 1957), but as far as Brianna Breck’s record of bowling the longest bowling spell is held, this work is held by Hirwani. has done it.
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59 consecutive overs were bowled against England
Actually, to take advantage of the ‘footmark’ made on the wicket, the captain had decided to make Hirwani bowl a long spell, however, in this innings he could not live up to the expectations and was able to take only one wicket. In the third Test of the series at the Oval, with the help of centuries from Ravi Shastri (187) and Kapil Dev (110), the Indian team won the toss and batted and made a huge score of 606 runs for 9 wickets (innings declared) in the first innings. In reply, the host England team was reduced to just 340 runs due to the bowling of Manoj Prabhakar (4 wickets) and Atul Vasan (2 wickets) and had to follow. Team India had a chance to win the match. Regular captain Mohammad Azharuddin had to leave the field due to swelling in his heel, hence Ravi Shastri captained the Indian team in the second innings of England.
To save the match, England’s batsmen batted defensively in the second innings and concentrated on saving wickets. The host team was successful in saving the match and winning the series 1-0. England’s score in the second innings was 477 runs after losing four wickets, which included David Gower’s unbeaten 157, captain Graham Gooch’s 88 and Mike Atherton’s 86 runs.
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Took 16 wickets in debut test, this record has not been broken till now
Hirwani is counted among India’s best spinners in Test cricket. Unfortunately, in his international career of about eight years, he could play only 17 Tests and 18 ODIs. Hirwani, who made his Test debut against West Indies in Chennai (then Madras) in 1988, took 8 wickets each in both the innings. This record of taking 16 wickets for 136 runs in Test debut has not been broken even after 35 years. In this test, he took 8 wickets for 61 runs in the first innings and 8 wickets for 75 runs in the second innings. With his magical bowling, India won this test by a huge margin of 255 runs. The Indies team against which Hirwani recorded this bowling analysis included stalwarts like Desmond Haynes, Phil Simmons, Richie Richardson, Viv Richards, Gus Logie, Carl Hooper and Jeff Dujon.
Hirwani played his first international match, a Test, in January 1988 in Madras (now Chennai), while his last Test was in November 1996 against South Africa in Kolkata.
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First bowler to take 4 wickets in three consecutive ODIs
An important record in ODI is also in the name of Hirwani. He was the first bowler in India and the world to achieve the feat of taking 4 wickets in three consecutive ODI matches. In the year 1988, Hirwani took four wickets for 43 runs in the match against New Zealand on March 27 in Sharjah, four wickets for 46 runs in the match against New Zealand on April 1 and four wickets for 50 runs in the ODI match against West Indies on October 16. There were shocks. After Hirwani, India’s Mohammed Shami has also achieved the feat of taking four or more wickets in three consecutive ODIs in 2019 and 2023.
Although Narendra Hirwani was born in Gorakhpur, UP, Indore city of Madhya Pradesh was his ‘workplace’. To hone his cricket skills, he came to Indore at an early age and learned the nuances of the game from Sanjay Jagdale. Hirwani, who made his Test debut at the age of 19, played for Madhya Pradesh for a long time in Ranji Trophy.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 2, 2024, 15:09 IST