The Indian team is all set to become only the fourth team in the world to play 500 or more Test matches when they lock horns against New Zealand in the first of the three-match Test series. The series will start on September 22 at Kanpur.
The Indian team played its first Test way back in 1932 and over the years it has produced several world class bowlers. The bowlers have given the team some memorable wins in the past and so here we are presenting 5 memorable spells by them:
5. Narendra Hirwani’s 16 wickets on debut, 1988:
The leg-spinner took the world by storm when he took eight wickets against West Indies. On an underprepared Madras pitch,the Indian team managed to score 382 runs with the help of century from Kapil Dev. At 98 for 2, West Indies were looking in a comfortable position only to see Hirwani destroy them as they got dismissed for only 184. The spinner finished the innings with 8 for 61. This made him only the fourth bowler to take eight wickets in an innings on debut.
In the second innings, where the visitors were chasing an improbable total of 416, the spinner once again destroyed their batting lineup. Hirwani took 8 for 75, for match figures of 16 for 136.