many years in world cup also he performance was not that much excellent he is lost in wolrd of bollywood may be Zalak Dikhalja fem Isha. This is not original zaheer we saw as "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.[4] 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 2006 Zaheer signed for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in England as one of their two overseas players, replacing Shoaib Akhtar.[5] Although Worcestershire went on to lose the match, Zaheer took ten wickets against Somerset on debut,[6] in doing so he became the first Worcestershire player to take 10 wickets on debut for over 100 years.[7] 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.
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 West Indies & Sh
Dhoni approach on relying too much on spin has backfired.
The fast bowlers have taken only 2 - 3 wickets in the series. Instead Dhoni should show the patience to allow the seamers to bowl 14 overs with the new ball and allow them to take early wickets with the new ball.
Instead, both Zaheer and Yadav were in-effective. Since both of them are capable of taking wickets with the old ball as well.
I am not sure why Zaheer is even playing the series if they want the spinners to take wickets.
There were 3 young quickies, Ishant, Yadav and Aaron. They should have allowed 2 of the 3 to open the bowling in this series and bowl with pace and fuller length.
If they had taken a couple of wickets then it would have become easier for the spinners as well. The Indian bowling attack should not have allowed NZ to score above 300.
Re: Spin centric approach results in poor bowling attack
by pravin sarode on Sep 01, 2012 07:00 AM
Zaheer Khan is slowly showing some results in the first test at cyberabad zaheer was flop show now he got one so some problem is there with zaheer which zaheer used to discuss freely with v v s laxman but now only sachin has that ability to understand zaheer problem may be ISHA
As expected, our bowlers blame pitch when they cant take wickets instead of accepting the fact that either they did not bowl well or opposition played well.
Same notion applies to our batsmen especially the lucky captain and the man who became easily rich guy Mr Dhoni
