Most wickets in Duleep Trophy: These days, the domestic tournament Duleep Trophy is being discussed a lot in India. This is happening because the BCCI has also asked the players of Team India to play in this tournament. For this reason, many star players will be a part of it and fans are also taking interest because of their favorite players. This time the tournament is starting from 5 September and instead of the zonal format, players have been divided into four teams as A, B, C, D. In the first round, Team A will be captained by Shubman Gill, Team B will be captained by Abhimanyu Easwaran, Team C will be captained by Ruturaj Gaikwad and Team D will be captained by Shreyas Iyer. Many big names will be seen playing under the leadership of all these.

The history of Duleep Trophy is quite old and it has been organized many times till now. If we talk about the records of bowlers in this major tournament of India, there have been many players who troubled the batsmen a lot with their balls and took many wickets. In this article, we are going to mention such top 5 bowlers who have the highest number of wickets in Duleep Trophy.

5. Erapalli Prasanna

Off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna is counted among the best spinners of India. This player achieved a lot of success in his career and took more than 950 wickets in first-class cricket. At the same time, he was the fifth highest wicket-taker in the Duleep Trophy. Prasanna took 83 wickets in 24 matches.

4. Srinivas Venkataraghavan

Srinivas Venkataraghavan is at number four in this list. Venkataraghavan did not take many wickets for India but he was very good in domestic cricket. This off-spinner took 95 wickets in 26 matches in the Duleep Trophy.

3. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, a leg spin bowler, is third in the list of bowlers who took the most wickets in Duleep Trophy. Chandrasekhar took 99 wickets in 24 matches.

2. Sairaj Bathule

Sairaj Bahutule, who was recently seen as a bowling coach with Team India on the Sri Lanka tour, achieved a lot of success in the Duleep Trophy and is only the second bowler to take more than 100 wickets in the tournament. Bahutule took 112 wickets in 30 matches.

1. Narendra Hirwani

Leg break bowler Narendra Hirwani's name is at the top of the list of bowlers who have taken the most wickets in the Duleep Trophy. Hirwani played 29 matches in the Duleep Trophy in his career and took the most wickets, 126.