Srinath vs Zaheer Khan

[Cricket Tragic]

Very similar records! Srinath

67 tests

236 wickets

Avg of 30.4

S/R of 64

229 ODIs

315 wickets

Avg of 28

S/R of 37

E/R 4.4

Zaheer

78 tests

271 wickets 

Avg of 31

S/R of 58

191 ODIs

273 wickets

Avg of 28 

S/R of 35

E/R 4.9

[Andy]

IMO Zaheer is much better now than what Srinath was ever.

[Rahul Dravid]

i agree with earlier comment. Zaheer now > Srinath Ever.. but.... Srinath was more consistent if you look at the whole span of their careers... anyways.. we relay heavily on Zaheer in the England Series and hopefully he'll come thru !

[Cricket Tragic]

Zaheer is a more skillful bowler imo.

[ensd2]

Zaheer :yay::yay::icflove::icflove:

[Vijay.Sharma]

Till about a year or two ago Srinath would have been the second medium pacer to make it to an all time India XI for me. But now it is time to revise that opinion and have Zak in there. Although Zak could touch 145 early in his career he never bowled faster than Srinath in his prime. Srinath would bowl at 93-94 mph during a 4 year stretch between 95 and 99. But Zak has acquired more variety than Srinath especially with the older ball. Although Srinath learned to bowl well on Indian tracks he did not have the variety as Zak. Very importantly Srinath was never a bowler like Zak whom you know if you throw the ball to him a wicket is guaranteed. Zak just knows how to get even well settled batsmen out.

[phaedrus]

Zak has grown to become a better and more consistant bowler. he knows how to use the conditions so, so well. still has a few years to go too. i would be very surprised if his overall avg isnt sub 30 (more like 28-29) by the end of his career.

[zen]

Srinath from 1996-2001, he was the most effective pace bowler from the sub-continent picking up 170 wkts in just 39 tests .... picking up 10 5-fors in this period .... his stunning performance against SA to win the test at A'bad on this own is yet to be replicated by an Indian pace bowler in India (post 90s) .... He used to do this w/o the help of other pacer putting the pressure from the other end LINK PS Paki posters wouldn't be too happy to know that because all we hear is Wasim and Waqar doing well but this period belonged to Srinath

[coffee_rules]

Whole career Zaheer > Srinath. Peak of Srinath > Peak of Zaheer. Pace of Srinath >> Pace of Zaheer. Talunt wise Zaheer >> Srinath. In a way, Srinath overperformed while Zaheer underperformed. Glad we have Zaheer after Srinath retired. Srinath never could bowl slower ones, nor yorkers. He had a stock delivery which would come in. Both are good against lefthanders.

[Sir_Afridi]

I like Srinath because he could bowl 150+

[phaedrus]

Srinath had a very good yorker early on in his career. sqfKOzpvVLw

[Guest Gunner]

Srinath was very unlucky on more than one occassion, he was an absolutely terrific bowler.

[punjabi_khota]

Zaheer (post 2006) has more of a cricketing brain in my opinion, and has learnt more tricks during his career than Sri.

[jusarrived]

Srinath was more talented while Zaheer is the smarter of the two . Sri was like Sharma in the early part of his career , short wide but a touch fatser which probabaly was teh difference ...he was a different bowler from ~99 , lost a bit of pace but was unplayable in some of his spells , its that period where he started pitching the ball up ...am hoping Sharma learns that at amuch earlier stage than Sri did.

[coffee_rules]

What peak are you referring to??

On the top of my head the foillowing peaks. I stand corrected. They have similar peak averages, but ZK has better SR. Srinath had lesser support in his peak period. ZK went for more runs initially , that explains his higher career average. From 1995-1996 - 1999-00 - Srinath. unfiltered 67 2517.2 7196 236 8/86 13/132 30.49 2.85 64.0 10 1 filtered 31 1190.2 3572 127 8/86 13/132 28.12 3.00 56.2 6 1 2006-07- 2010-2011 - Zaheer. unfiltered 78 2626 8658 271 7/87 10/149 31.94 3.29 58.1 10 1 filtered 36 1299.1 4260 150 7/87 10/149 28.40 3.27 51.9 7 1

[Andy]

Srinath was more talented while Zaheer is the smarter of the two . Sri was like Sharma in the early part of his career ' date=' short wide but a touch fatser which probabaly was teh difference ...he was a different bowler from ~99 , lost a bit of pace but was unplayable in some of his spells , its that period where he started pitching the ball up ...am hoping Sharma learns that at amuch earlier stage than Sri did.[/quote'] I disagree with you on the talent thing. I feel Zak is much more talented than what Srinath was. And I think Srinath bowled better in the ODIs only after he made a comeback after the CT 2002. He was pitching it up more than what he was doing in ODIs prior 2002. And developed a Out going delivery. For me he was bowling best then, though Pace was much down.

[jusarrived]

^ honestly I have come to hate the word 'talent' these days , anyway what i mean was ..Sri could swing both ways even when he started , although with not mauch control .. Zaheer was motsly straight , but has developed his skills and arguably more dangerous now ..but if I had to pick one of these two , Sri was a natural .

[ravishingravi]

Srinath had great potential but he never got his length right till the last few years of his career especially the WC. I think he lacked the guidance that Zaheer has had.

[rkt.india]

Srinath was very unlucky on more than one occassion' date=' he was an absolutely terrific bowler.[/quote'] Srinath was one of the most unluckiest bowler I should say....

[Sidhoni]

I haven't saw much of Srinath while bowling, so cant say, but Zak is one of the most intelligent bowers Cricket ever had.