Bangalore Royal Challengers

Zaheer’s efforts acknowledged

Zaheer Khan has been felicitated for being named among one of the Five Cricketers of the Year 2007 by Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack.

In a short ceremony in Bangalore before their match with Delhi DareDevils, Rahul Dravid presented Zaheer with a leather-bound copy of the Wisden 2008. Zaheer was recognised by Wisden as “the Indian left-armer who ended England’s six-year sequence of being unbeaten in home Test series”. Zaheer ended the three-Test series with 18 wickets at 20.33 and his 9 for 134 was instrumental in the Indian victory in Nottingham, a win that set up the 1-0 triumph.

Zaheer said the award was a true reflection of his efforts in the last year. He said that while he was not a great reader of cricket books, he had been inspired after reading The Art of Fast Bowling by his childhood idol Dennis Lillee. He also mentioned that he had learnt a lot from Wasim Akram, Allan Donald and Glenn McGrath.

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