Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000, currently playing his domestic cricket for Mumbai and representing the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League. Zaheer is currently the second-most successful Indian pace bowler in Test match cricket, only behind Kapil Dev in the history of Indian cricket for taking most Test wickets. A left-arm pace bowler, Zaheer has carved out a place as one of world cricket's most effective swing bowlers. 

Zaheer Khan started his domestic career by playing for Baroda, making a name for himself in the Indian domestic game as a hostile and aggressive pace bowler, capable of producing pin-point yorkers with Baroda and then Mumbai. As well as two separate spells in England with Surrey and Worcestershire, Zaheer has also been a highly valued player in the IPL, playing for the Bangalore Royal Challengers and the Mumbai Indians. 

After making his Test debut in 2000, Zaheer has gone on to take 300 Test wickets at an average of just over 32 runs per wicket during nearly 90 appearances in the Test side. In a 16 match-spell from the beginning of April 2002 to the end of December 2003, Zaheer took 54 wickets from 16 matches at an average of just 30 runs. Injuries began to have an impact on the left-arm bowler's Test career since then, however, although Zaheer has never been far from the squad and returned to the team in 2013 to take his 300th wicket in Test cricket.  

In ODI cricket, Zaheer has taken 282 wickets at an average of just over 29 after making his debut in 2000. Alongside fellow seamers Javagal Srinath and Ashish Nehra, Zaheer helped India to make it to the final of the 2003 World Cup, only to lose to Australia in the final. Zaheer was again in India's squad for their dismal World Cup squad four years later, but made up for that disappointment by playing a key part in India winning their first World Cup in 2011. The bowler led the pace attack, taking 21 wickets in 9 games, finishing the tournaments as the joint leading wicket-taker alongside Pakistan's Shahid Afridi. 

He is joint 5th in the world and the leading Indian wicket taker in World Cup cricket alongside Javagal Srinath on 44 wickets, although Zaheer has achieved this feat in only 23 matches while Srinath took 34 matches.

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