Leaving engineering, Zaheer Khan made such a discovery in cricket, people are still using it

Happy Birthday Zaheer Khan: Many legendary players came in the history of Indian cricket, who made a name for themselves. One of them is also Zaheer Khan. Former Indian left arm fast bowler Zaheer Khan is celebrating his 44th birthday today. Zaheer Khan, who debuted under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly in the year 2000, was so passionate about cricket that he chose cricket to give up engineering. Engineers often discover something new. Zaheer did the same. He invented the ‘imitation ball’ in the world of cricket.

The ‘copying ball’ started from here

During the year 2004-05, Zaheer Khan’s career was going through a bad phase. At that time he was also dropped from the team. At the same time, he discovered this ball and practiced it fiercely. When he returned to the team again, then he used this ball. Zaheer Khan’s ‘Knuckle Ball’ is quite famous and bowlers still use this ball well to shine the batsmen.

engineer-turned-cricketer

Born on 7 October 1978 in Shrirampur, Maharashtra, the story of Zaheer Khan becoming a cricketer is somewhat different. Zaheer’s early education in life was done from Hind Seva Mandal New Marathi Primary School in Shrirampur. After this he did his further studies at KJ Somaiya Secondary School. Then he enrolled in engineering. But his heart and mind were settled only in cricket. Seeing this passion of Zaheer, his father advised him that there are many engineers in the country, you should become a fast bowler. The journey of Zaheer to become Zaheer Khan started with this father’s talk.

Significantly, today Zaheer Khan is known by the name ‘Zack’. Zaheer Khan started his cricket career after coming to Mumbai at the age of 17. Zaheer Khan came into the limelight by taking 7 wickets in a match played against Gymkhana Club. At that time, TA Shekhar of MRF’s Pace Foundation caught sight of Zaheer Khan and he took Zaheer to Chennai, where Zaheer groomed himself. After this he made his footsteps in first class and international cricket.

such a career

Zaheer Khan, who took 23 wickets in the 2011 World Cup, had a great career. Zaheer Khan has taken a total of 44 wickets in the World Cup. He has played a total of 92 Test matches in his international career, in which he has taken 311 wickets. At the same time, 282 while playing 200 ODIs and 17 wickets while playing 17 T20 Internationals have dropped in their bag.

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