Zaheer Khan
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Left-arm fast-medium | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 42 | 107 |
| Runs scored | 507 | 453 |
| Batting average | 12.67 | 13.32 |
| 100s/50s | -/1 | -/- |
| Top score | 75 | 34* |
| Balls bowled | 7961 | 5315 |
| Wickets | 121 | 155 |
| Bowling average | 36.34 | 27.97 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 3 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | N/A |
| Best bowling | 5/29 | 4/19 |
| Catches/stumpings | 10/- | 25/- |
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Zaheer Khan pronunciation (born October 7, 1978, Srirampur, Maharashtra) is an Indian cricketer (left-arm fast-medium bowler) and a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000, besides playing for the Baroda first-class team. He made his Test debut against Bangladesh at Dhaka and ODI debut against Kenya at Nairobi in the same year.
He has taken over 100 ODI wickets at an average of 26 runs per wicket taking 4 wickets in a match 6 times (4 times against Zimbabwe) including 32 wickets against Zimbabwe at an average of 17.46 runs per dismissal. He, along with other seamers like Javagal Srinath and Ashish Nehra helped India to make it to the finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Zaheer finished the 2003 World cup as 4th highest wicket taker - 18 wickets from 11 matches at an average of 20 runs per wicket.[1]
Zaheer Khan has taken 121 wickets at an average of 37 runs per wicket. Zaheer was at the peak of his Test career in the 2002-2003 season. In 16 matches from the beginning of the tour of West Indies in April 2002 to the end of the 1st match against Australia in December 2003, Brisbane, Zaheer took 54 wickets from 16 matches at an average of 30 runs. It all turned downhill after the first match against Australia in December 2003. Having taken 5 of the top 7 Australian batsmen in the first innings (5 for 95), he injured himself in the second during the opening spell.
Zaheer holds the world record for the highest Test score by a number 11 when he scored 75 for India v Bangladesh in Dhaka, 2004. His partnership with Sachin Tendulkar which produced 133 runs is an Indian-record for the tenth-wicket.
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Rudra Pratap Singh and Munaf Patel all made their international debuts and became regular members of the Indian team making it difficult for Zaheer to retain his position in the playing eleven. The Board of Control for Cricket in India demoted Zaheer from a B-grade to a C-grade contract at the end of the year.
In 2006 Zaheer signed for Worcestershire County Cricket Club as their second overseas player as a replacement for Australian Nathan Bracken. He became the first Worcestershire player to take 10 wickets in a match on debut for over 100 years against Somerset, even though Worcestershire eventually lost the game. In June 2006 he took the first nine wickets to fall in the first innings against Essex, ending with 9-138; had wicket-keeper Steven Davies not dropped a catch offered by last man Darren Gough he would have become the first bowler ever to take all ten for the county.
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India squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Ganguly | 2 Dravid | 3 Sehwag | 4 Tendulkar | 5 Kumble | 6 Harbhajan | 7 Srinath | 8 Zaheer | 9 Nehra | 10 Mongia | 11 P Patel | 12 Bangar | 13 Agarkar | 14 Yuvraj | 15 Kaif | Coach: Wright |
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