Most wickets by an Indian in a single Test match

#1 Narendra Hirwani 16/136 versus West Indies, 1988

Hirwani just took 50 wickets in the next 16 Test matches

The legspinner was an one-season wonder for India who reset record books but then faded away into oblivion soon after. In 1988, Hirwani was a bespectacled 19-year-old and like any youngster wanted to impress on his debut. India were facing West Indies on an underprepared surface at the Chepauk and it was Kapil Dev’s heroics which got the hosts to a respectable score of 382 in the first innings.

Hirwani got his chance to bowl very early in the innings and with his big legspinners foxed most of the West Indies batsmen. He even dismissed the great Vivian Richards in both the innings. West Indies were set a target of 416 by the hosts but it was Hirwani once again who ensured they did not even get close to the score picking up 8/75 as a follow up to his 8/61 in the first innings.

Sadly he never could replicate the same again. In his next 16 Test he could only pick 50 Test wickets and was dropped from the team thereafter.