Zaheer on MCC honour: we have enjoyed personification during Lord’s

Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan

Presumably, a Lord’s Cricket Ground would be during a bottom of a list comprising Zaheer Khan’s favourite grounds, deliberation what happened in his final general diversion during a devout home of cricket. 

In a opening Test of a 2011 series, Zaheer limped off a margin on a initial day with a hamstring damage after promulgation behind England’s maladroit openers Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook with 62 on a board.

Cook was trapped leg before for 12 and after England skipper Strauss pulls one that lands in Ishant Sharma’s hands during excellent leg. This was a sixth time that a southpaw fell to Zaheer in 11 innings. A small later, disaster struck in a India stay as their sprearhead limped off never to lapse in a series.

Yesterday, a Marylebone Cricket Club inaugurated Zaheer an titular life member of a club, tighten on a heels of Virender Sehwag’s membership announcement. Zaheer played 3 Tests during Lord’s (2002, 2007 and 2011) with his 4 for 79 in a 2007 Test as his best effort. In one-day cricket, a 2002 NatWest Series final will hang in memory forever.

Famous for a batting efforts of Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif, Zaheer claimed 3 for 62.  His victims were Nick Knight, Andrew Flintoff and Michael Vaughan. “I have always enjoyed personification during Lords that is a home of cricket.
“It’s an honour and payoff to be among a chosen and renowned organisation of cricketers who accept this honour from MCC. we humbly accept this membership,” pronounced Zaheer.

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