Zaheer Khan is one of the most popular names of the Indian cricket, he has led the Indian pace attack for many years. Recently during a discussion, the Indian pacer Ishant Sharma revealed as to how Virat Kohli ended Zaheer Khan’s career and why Zak (nickname for Zaheer Khan) wasn’t able to play 100 test matches.
Zaheer Khan played 92 test matches, he announced his retirement in 2014 after a test match against New Zealand in which Brendon McCullum scored triple hundred and helped his team in putting up a total of 680/8d on the score board. In that match, Virat Kohli dropped a catch of Brendon Mccullum. Ishant Sharma revealed, “We were playing in New Zealand. Brendon McCullum had scored 300 runs and when Virat Kohli dropped a catch, I remembered that this happened around lunch. Virat said sorry to Zak and Zak said, ‘No worries, we’ll get him out.’ During tea, Kohli said sorry again and Zak told him not to worry. On the third day when Kohli apologized during tea, Zak told him, ‘You’ve ended my career!’”
Later on, Zaheer explained the whole thing and also told Virat Kohli that it is the second time someone has dropped a catch and the batter has gone on to score 300. He said, “I didn’t say that. I said that there were only two players, the first was Kiran More who dropped Graham Gooch and he scored 300. After that, it’s Virat Kohli who dropped a catch and someone scored 300. Then, he told me not to talk like that, naturally as he wouldn’t have felt good about that. The catch was dropped and the runs were scored.”
Zaheer Khan was certainly a special bowler, agree?
