Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan
Personal information
Born (1978-10-07) 7 October 1978
Shrirampur, Maharashtra, India
Nickname Zak, Zippy and Zakky[1]
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Left-arm fast medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 231) 10 November 2000 v Bangladesh
Last Test 14 February 2014 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 133) 3 October 2000 v Kenya
Last ODI 4 August 2012 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 34
T20I debut (cap 5) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 2 October 2012 v South Africa
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1999/00–2005/06 Baroda
2004 Surrey
2006 Worcestershire
2006–2014 Mumbai
2008, 2011–2013 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2009–2010, 2014 Mumbai Indians
2015–2017 Delhi Daredevils
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 92 200 17 253
Runs scored 1,230 792 13 1047
Batting average 11.94 12.00 6.50 12.17
100s/50s 0/3 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 75 34* 9 43
Balls bowled 18,785 10,097 352 12,745
Wickets 311 282 17 357
Bowling average 32.95 29.44 26.35 29.07
5 wickets in innings 11 1 0 1
10 wickets in match 1 0 0 0
Best bowling 7/87 5/42 4/19 5/42
Catches/stumpings 19/– 43/– 2/– 57/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 25 December 2016

Zaheer Khan (born 7 October 1978) is an Indian former cricketer who played all forms of the game for the Indian national team from 2000 till 2014. He was the second-most successful Indian pace bowler in Test cricket, behind Kapil Dev. Khan started his domestic career by playing for Baroda. In the early years of his career, Khan was known for his hostile seam and pace bowling, especially fast inch-perfect yorkers.[2]

In a bid to improve his bowling, Khan moved to England for a short stint with Worcestershire in 2006. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he was best known for his ability to "move the ball both ways off the wicket and swing the old ball at some pace".[3] Khan continues to excel in reverse swing with the old ball.[4][5]

He is praised for his performances on flat subcontinent pitches and the controlling of different types of cricket balls. He was one of the key members of the 2011 ODI World Cup winning team, leading the pace attack with 21 wickets in just 9 games. In 2011 he was conferred with the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award by the President of India. Khan's career is also noted for recurring injuries, which often interrupted his progress at the international level. That is also the reason Zaheer has set up ProSport Fitness & Services, a special rehab & training center in association with Adrian Le Roux and Andrew Leipus.In where zaheer and Malinga (Mumbai Indians) were the most successful pace bowling combination in the Ipl history.

Khan was selected as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2008. Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international cricket in October 2015. [6] He also played for Worcestershire in County Cricket and played for Mumbai and Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians in Indian domestic cricket.

Only Muttiah Muralitharan (325) and Shaun Pollock (252) have dismissed more left-hand batsmen than Zaheer, who has gotten the better of southpaws 237 times. He also has the distinct record of dismissing Graeme Smith, Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya and Matthew Hayden – some of the game’s most feared left-hand batsmen over 10 times each in international cricket.

He announced his retirement from international cricket on 15 October 2015.

Personal life

He was born on 7 October 1978 in Shrirampur, Maharashtra, India to parents Zakia and Bakhtiyar Khan. He has an elder brother Zeeshan and younger brother Anees. Zaheer attended the New Marathi Primary school and the K. J. Somaiyya Secondary School in Shrirampur. He also played in the local Revenue Colony Cricket Club (RCC) in Shrirampur after which he started his career in Pune.[7]

On 24 April 2017, he announced on his Twitter account that he was engaged to actress Sagarika Ghatge.[8] The couple got married on 23 November 2017.[9]

Domestic career

In Indian domestic cricket, Zaheer made his name playing for Baroda. In the 2000/01 Ranji Trophy final against Railways, Zaheer was Man of the Match with eight wickets, including a second innings haul of 5/43, in Baroda's narrow 21-run victory.[10] He transferred to Mumbai at the start of the 2006-07 Indian cricket season his debut for Mumbai until the final of the Ranji Trophy in which he took 9 wickets as Mumbai defeated Bengal.

In 2005 Zaheer signed for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in England as one of their two overseas players, replacing Shoaib Akhtar.[11] Although Worcestershire went on to lose the match, Zaheer took ten wickets against Somerset on debut;[12] in doing so he became the first Worcestershire player to take 10 wickets on debut for over 100 years.[13] In June 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.

Khan has played the Royal Challengers as well as Mumbai Indians before he was picked for the Delhi Daredevils in the 2015 auction. He has captained the Daredevils in 2016 and 2017. In 2017 season, Zaheer became the 10th bowler in the history and 8th Indian bowler, to pick 100 wickets in Indian Premier League. At the age of 38, he is the oldest player to achieve this feat.

SeasonMatchesBallsRuns concededWicketsBestAverageEconomyStrikerateTeam
Career100220027821024/1727.277.5921.57
200811252357133/3827.468.5019.38RCB
2009612614263/3123.666.7621.00MI
201014290376153/2125.077.7719.33MI
201115354455143/3232.507.7125.29RCB
201216360453173/3826.658.5021.18RCB
20132364754/179.407.837.20RCB
2014613414652/2129.206.5326.80MI
2015714515672/922.286.4520.71DD
2016817223983/2129.878.3321.50DD
201711241313103/2031.307.8024.10DD

International career

Debut days

Zaheer was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.[14] He made his Test debut against Bangladesh and ODI debut against Kenya during the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy in the same year.[3]

Struggling form

In late 2005 pacemen Sreesanth and R. P. Singh 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. He returned for the 2005 tour of Pakistan, where India fielded three left arm pacemen and had difficulty dismissing Pakistan with a lack of variety in the bowling attack.

Recall to team

Late in 2006, Zaheer was recalled to the Test and ODI team for the tour of South Africa, following Irfan Pathan's slump in form and an injury to Munaf Patel. After consistent performances on tour, his performance in early 2007 in home ODIs against the West Indies and Sri Lanka, including a career best 5/42, saw him named in the squad for the 2007 World Cup.

He won the Man of the Match award in the first Test between India and Australia in the 2008–2009 series in India for his all round performance with the bat and the ball.

ODI career

He has taken 282 ODI wickets at an average of just over 29 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 World Cup. Zaheer finished the tournament as fourth highest wicket-taker – 18 wickets from 11 matches at an average of 20 runs per wicket.[15] He is also the fourth highest wicket-taker in ODIs for India with 282 scalps behind Anil Kumble (337), Javagal Srinath (315) and Ajit Agarkar (288). [16]

Test career

Zaheer has taken 311 Test wickets at an average of just over 32 runs per wicket. South African star all-rounder Jacques Kallis was Zaheer's 300th test wicket. 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 Test against Australia in Brisbane 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. After missing the second Test he returned for the third, but was injured midway through the match and was forced to return home. The injury kept him from the early 2004 tour of Pakistan, India's first Test series victory in the country.

Earlier, Zaheer held the world record for the highest Test score by a number 11 when he scored 75 against Bangladesh in 2004.[17] At the time he was batting with Sachin Tendulkar; the pair amassed 133 runs, a new record for India's tenth-wicket.[18] This record was broken by Tino Best of the West Indies in 2012. The current record holder is Ashton Agar of the Australia on his debut match in 2013.

World Cup

Zaheer has 44 World Cup wickets, spanning from 2003 to 2011, putting him in fifth place behind Glenn McGrath (71), Muttiah Muralitharan (68), Wasim Akram (55) and Chaminda Vaas (49) on the list of highest number of wickets by a bowler the marquee event. He is tied with Srinath in fifth but Srinath has played 34 games as opposed to Zaheer’s 23.

Zaheer, who was one of India’s trump cards during their World Cup triumph in 2011, finished as the joint highest wicket-taker along with Shahid Afridi with 21 scalps.


Dismissed most number of times

#BatsmanMatchesOut
1Graeme Smith2513
2Kumar Sangakkara5111
3Sanath Jayasuriya3610
4Matthew Hayden2910
5Mahela Jayawardene5409

Later Career

Azmat Ali says July 2011 India embarked on a tour of England. Having bowled 13.3 overs, Zaheer strained his hamstring and suffered an ankle injury in the first Test of the four-match series and as a result was ruled out of the rest of the tour.[19] Zaheer came back in December and played a test match against Australia on Boxing day. He took two wickets in two consecutive deliveries, dismissing Michael Clarke for 31 and Mike Hussey for a duck.[20] In the second test at Sydney, he took three wickets of the four to fall, Clarke scoring 329*; his were the best figures in both these innings.[21] As of February 2014 Zaheer Khan is ranked 22 in the ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers. He toured South Africa in December 2013[22] and New Zealand in 2014.

Retirement

Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket on 15 October 2015 in a tweet saying "I bid adieu to my career in international cricket. I look forward to signing off with IPL 9."[23]

Coaching career

In 2017,he was appointed as bowling consultant for India national cricket team

Achievements

10-wicket hauls (Tests)

#FiguresMatchOpponentVenueCityCountryYear
110/14970 BangladeshSher-e-Bangla Cricket StadiumDhakaBangladesh2010

5-wicket hauls (Tests)

#FiguresMatchOpponentVenueCityCountryYear
15/5324 New ZealandBasin ReserveWellingtonNew Zealand2002
25/2924 New ZealandSeddon ParkHamiltonNew Zealand2002
35/9527 AustraliaThe GabbaBrisbaneAustralia2003
45/3447 BangladeshSher-e-Bangla Cricket StadiumDhakaBangladesh2007
55/7549 EnglandTrent BridgeNottinghamEngland2007
65/9157 AustraliaM. ChinnaswamyBangaloreIndia2008
75/6565 New ZealandBasin ReserveWellingtonNew Zealand2009
85/7268 Sri LankaBrabourne StadiumMumbaiIndia2009
97/8770 BangladeshSher-e-Bangla Cricket StadiumDhakaBangladesh2010
105/9473 AustraliaPCA StadiumMohaliIndia2010
115/17092(Last match) New ZealandBasin ReserveWellingtonNew Zealand2014

5-wicket hauls (ODIs)

#FiguresMatchOpponentVenueCityCountryYear
15/42116 Sri LankaNehru StadiumMargaoIndia2007

Man-of-the-match awards (Test matches)

Date Opponent Ground Record or scorecards[24]
27 May 2000 Bangladesh Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka 7 wickets
31 July 2007 England Trent Bridge, Nottingham 9 wickets, 10 runs
13 October 2008 Australia M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 6 wickets, 57 runs
27 January 2010 Bangladesh Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka 10 wickets
5 October 2010 Australia Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali 8 wickets, 16 runs

Man-of-the-series awards (Test match series)

Date Opponent Record/Series link[24]
July–August 2007 England 18 wickets at an average of 20.33, 28 runs at an average of 9.33, 1 catch (three Tests)
December 2008 England 8 wickets at an average of 21.00, 8 runs at an average of 4.00, 2 catches (two Tests)
January 2010 Bangladesh 15 wickets at an average of 19.53, 31 runs at an average of 10.33 (two Tests)

Man-of-the-match awards (ODIs)

No. Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1 Zimbabwe Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah 22 October 2000 4* (3 balls); 10-0-37-3  India won by 13 runs.[25]
2 New Zealand Westpac Stadium, Wellington 8 January 2003 8-0-30-3 ; 34* (42 balls: 3x4, 1x6)  India won by 2 wickets.[26]
3 New Zealand SuperSport Park, Centurion 14 March 2003 8-0-42-4, 1 ct. ; DNB  India won by 7 wickets.[27]

ProSport Fitness & Services

ProSport Fitness and Services
Physical fitness and sports
Industry Physical fitness
Founded Mumbai, India
Founder Zaheer Khan
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Key people
 Zaheer Khan, Andrew Leipus, Adrian Le Roux
Divisions Functional training, strength and conditioning, physiotherapy
Website http://prosportfitness.in/

In 2014 Khan founded a fitness and sports company ProSport Fitness and Services in Mumbai, that offers fitness training and physiotherapy services.[28] Involving personnel such as Andrew Leipus and Adrian Le Roux, the center aims to "maximize potential" of people and athletes by personally assisted fitness programs. Khan stated that the objective was to "bring in world class fitness program to India for sports injury management".[29][30][31] It offers scientifically designed programs and treatment while conducting workshops and sessions for corporates and schools to spread awareness of physical fitness.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Cricinfo Magazine
  2. ↑ "Zaheer Khan". Cricinfo.
  3. 1 2 Premachandran, Dileep. "Zaheer Khan". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 2007-11-15. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
  4. ↑ "clean bowled by reverse swing by zaheer khan". YouTube (Australia tour of India 2010/11, 13 Oct). Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "2nd Test India v Australia at Bangalore, Oct 9–13, 2010 Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Zaheer Khan". espncricinfo.com. 9 April 2008.
  7. ↑ "Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2008 Zaheer Khan". Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Zaheer Khan announces engagement with actress Sagarika Ghatge". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Sonali, Kriti (23 November 2017). "Sagarika Ghatge marries Zaheer Khan, see photos of the newlyweds and wedding card". The Indian Express. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  10. ↑ Cricketarchive Baroda vs Railways in 2000/01, Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  11. ↑ Bolton, Paul. "Worcestershire preview, 2006: Strong squad eyeing promotion". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  12. ↑ "Mushtaq powers Sussex to victory". Cricinfo. 28 April 2006. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
  13. ↑ , from http://www.zks.co.in/about_zaheer.php
  14. ↑ Ramchand, Partab (15 April 2000). "First list of trainees". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  15. ↑ "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2002/03 Bowling – Most Wickets". ESPNcricinfo. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  16. ↑ "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 / Records / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  17. ↑ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most runs in an innings (by batting position)". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  18. ↑ "Records / India / Test matches / Highest partnerships by wicket". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  19. ↑ "India bowler Zaheer Khan out of England Test series". BBC Sport. 7 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
  20. ↑ "1st Test Australia v India at Melbourne, Dec 26–29, 2011-Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "2nd Test Australia v India at Sydney, Jan 3–6, 2012-Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  22. ↑ "Tendulkar, Zaheer placed at 17th spot in ICC Test rankings". Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  23. ↑ "Zaheer Khan announces international retirement". ESPN Cricinfo. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  24. 1 2 "Statsguru - Z Khan - Tests - Match/series awards list". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  25. ↑ "2000-2001 Coca-Cola Champions Trophy - 3rd Match - India v Zimbabwe - Sharjah".
  26. ↑ "2002-2003 New Zealand v India - 5th Match - Wellington".
  27. ↑ "2002-2003 ICC World Cup - 49th Match - India v New Zealand - Centurion".
  28. ↑ "Zaheer Khan launches fitness company". cricketcountry.com. 26 July 2014.
  29. ↑ "Zaheer Khan about Pro Sports Fitness centre".
  30. ↑ "Down But Not Out". Mumbai Mirror. 14 June 2015. Archived from the original on 11 November 2017.
  31. ↑ "Say Goodbye To Injuries". Man's World. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015.
  32. ↑ "7 things Zaheer Khan wants you to know". rediff.com. 29 May 2015.
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