Hirwani completes 300 wickets in Ranji Trophy
Narendra Hirwani of Madhya Pradesh today become the 16th bowler in the country and the first from M.P to capture 300 wickets in Ranji Trophy when he claimed his second wicket in the Vidarbha first innings at Nagpur
Rajiv Risodkar
25-Oct-1999
Narendra Hirwani of Madhya Pradesh today become the 16th bowler in the
country and the first from M.P to capture 300 wickets in Ranji Trophy
when he claimed his second wicket in the Vidarbha first innings at
Nagpur.
31 Year old Hirwani made his Ranji Debut in 1984-85 against Rajasthan
at Bhilai. Since then he has played 61 Ranji Trophy matches and
captured 301 wickets at an average of 23.76, he has captured 5 wickets
in an innings 29 times and 10 wickets in a match 5 times. His best has
been 8-52 against Vidarbha at Nagpur in 1993-94. Hirwani represented
Benagal in 1996-97 season. He took the world by storm by taking record
of 16 wickets in his first test against West Indies in Chennai in
1987-88. He has taken 66 wickets in 17 Tests.
Others to claim 300 wickets in Ranji Trophy are:
R Goel 640 S Venkatraghavan 530 BS Chandrasekhar 431 VV Kumar 417 Bishen Bedi 402 EAS Prasanna 373 P Shivalkar 361 S Madanlal 351 S Talwar 345 Raghuram Bhat 343 Dilip Doshi 318 Hyder Ali 317 Rakesh Shukla 313 Kailash Gattani 308 Maninder Singh 303
Hirwani's Performance in Ranji Trophy is as follows:
Season Matches Balls Maidens Runs W Avg 5WI 10WM
84-85 4 907 20 526 13 40.46 1 -
85-86 4 1017 38 478 24 19.91 3 1
86-87 - - - - - - - -
87-88 2 458 6 221 9 24.55 1 -
88-89 1 84 3 46 - - - -
89-90 4 891 29 486 23 21.13 3 7
90-91 3 930 40 364 18 20.22 2 -
91-92 2 582 23 308 4 77.00 - -
92-93 7 2553 106 1035 47 22.02 6 1
93-94 5 1441 58 590 33 17.87 3 1
94-95 6 1359 49 594 30 19.80 2 1
95-96 2 599 21 242 11 22.00 1 -
96-97 6 1576 65 671 29 23.14 2 -
97-98 6 1622 70 654 24 26.16 1 -
98-99 8 1932 61 856 33 25.93 4 -
99-2000 1 186 4 81 3 27.00 - -