• Zaheer Khan opts out of SA Series
• Injured Zaheer to fly back home; VRV to join the team
• The Great Australian Roller Coaster comes crashing down
• Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan star in India's sensational victory
• Fitness worries for Zaheer and Flintoff
• Zaheer swung his way through!
• India go 1-0 up with a seven-wicket win
• Zak puts India on winning path; Just 63 more to win!
• Stupendous Indian bowling has England in deep trouble
• India need to capitalize on an inexperienced English attack
• Indian bowling punished by lower order batsmen at Chelmsford!
• It is the Indian batting than their bowling...
• Zaheer, Sreesanth to miss BCCI Camp
• Zaheer helps India wrap up Mirpur Test in three days
• Zaheer puts Bangladesh in a sorry state
• Zaheer, Dravid script India's series-leveling win
• Mumbai clinch Ranji Trophy for the 37th time against all odds!
• South Africa clinch the hard-fought series with a 5-wkt win
• Buoyant India continues to put the lid on SA
• Dinesh Karthik helps India win its Twenty20 Debut!
• Indians win the Potchefstroom warm-up match
• Kemp, Hall script a famous win for SA at Newlands
• Kumble, Zaheer recalled for ODIs; Jaffer also included
• Ganguly, Laxman and Zaheer picked for Challenger Series
• The Domestic Champs in a Precarious Position

Zaheer Khan : The silver lightning in the Indian Cloud

A feature article by Karthik Narayan

Australia, England, the West Indies, and even neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka all boasted of their faster variety of left arm bowlers. Something unheard of in Indian soil for many years, and not certainly until Karsan Ghavri led the team with the new ball attacks. Thickset critics shooed the Indian new ball attack off, ever since Srinath and Prasad were on their onward journey to hit that final shower and hang up their boots. Many youngsters were tried out, Harvinder Singh, Debashis Mohanty, Robin Singh Jr, Thiru Kumaran are the first few names in that list.

But then, cometh the hour, cometh the occasion, rises thy Hero, riding with palm desert spring water sprinkling it like elixir onto the team captain making him proud to have bred a variety in vogue. Bowlers always move in transitional stages all through their life spans. With the end of Srinath-Prasad era, ushering in a new ball attack to bowl against the contemporary greats is a tough task for any captain. Read More

 

    M   I  NO  Runs  HS    Ave     SR    100  50  Ct  St
   53  69  17   629  75  12.09   51.22    0    1  13   0

    O       M     R     W     Ave    BBI   5   10    SR    Econ
  1735    355   5712   170  33.60   5-29   5    0  61.23   3.29

    M    I   NO   Runs   HS     Ave    SR    100  50   Ct  St
   144  80   34    660   34*  14.34  80.38    0    0   28   0

    O      M    R    W     Ave    BBI   4w  5w    SR    Econ
  1202.1  81  5910  201  29.40    5-42    6   1  35.88   4.91