Zaheer - The Next Agarkar

[zubinpepsi]

Bottomline is we are desperately short of a good pace attack for ODIs: Zak is poor AA is poor MP is *shudder* (worst attitude and laziness among the bowlers) RPS and SS will blow hot, blow cold. But I guess they have more potential than above 3 IKP is a decent slow medium pacer - effective for ODIs but not lethal. We have seen the "bench strength" in Challenger series, India Red, Blue, Green - *shudder*

Agree 100%.. thts my thought as well.. we really dont have any n fast bowler coming up... all in the domestic circuit r tundlers and they will b taken apart by the opposition... I seriously wonder what these pace foundations and NCAs are doing..

[bharat297]

Skills wise Zaheer Khan COULD still be a very very good ODI bowler. He is a good test match bowler. I have watched nearly every ball of Indian international cricket (minus the BD tour and the Indo-Windies series last year) and call me crazy if you want ... but I still feel Zaheer is our best ODI bowler at the death. He did produce some good spells at the death against Australia. No doubt he is going through a bad patch. I would give him 1 more game to redeem himself. If he cant then bring in Sreesanth or PKum. However, I would not give up on him altogether and start pulling crap like Agarkar is better (which is simply put ... rubbish). Zaheer is going through a bad patch. He is struggling primarily for control but is still a very dangerous bowler. I still feel Zaheer is our best death bowler at the moment, despite yesterday. In that, if I were Dhoni next game and there was a similar situation at the death, I would give Zaheer the ball, without doubt. He would be determined to not make the same mistake and that determination could win you matches.

according to Michael Vaughan' date='Zaheer is better than Wasim Akram:haha:[/quote'] Vaughan was basing it on what he faced during the test series, where Zaheer was going around the wicket to a right hander and swinging it away, and consistently at a good line and length. Thats just as good as what Akram could do. Remember Tests and ODIs are different beasts.

[putrevus]

I raised this issue earlier this week zaheer khan looks lost after test series of england .Eversince either he has grown too over confident and is just not good enough for odis.He needs to be dropped ASAP .when dravid can be dropped , no body is safe.