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Did Zaheer Blame Kohli for Career End? Ishant’s Story Sparks Buzz, Zaheer Clarifies

A 2014 Test match anecdote resurfaced when Ishant Sharma recounted Zaheer Khan jokingly telling Virat Kohli, “You ruined my career,” after Kohli dropped a catch that led to Brendon McCullum’s triple century.

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IPL's Lucknow Super Giants coach Zaheer Khan has recently become a father. The name of the former Indian team's fast bowler is in the headlines these days . Zaheer Khan and his wife Sagarika have also named their son very uniquely. Let us tell you an anecdote related to Zaheer Khan today. This anecdote came up during the discussion of another fast bowler Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan. During a Test series against the West Indies, Ishant and Zaheer were talking on Jio Cinema . During this time, Ishant told how Zaheer Khan got angry and scolded Virat Kohli . After this, Zaheer also put forth his side. Let us know what the whole matter was.

Did Zaheer blamed Kohli for Career end?
From India's 2014 tour of New Zealand. Then Brendon McCullum scored a triple century against India. In this match, Virat Kohli dropped McCullum's catch. Ishant Sharma told about this on Jio Cinema. He said that we were playing in New Zealand. Virat Kohli dropped Brendon McCullum's catch on Zaheer Khan's ball. After this, he said sorry to Zaheer during lunch. Then Zaheer said that it doesn't matter. We will get him out. McCullum kept playing and at tea time Kohli again apologized to Zaheer. Zaheer again told him not to worry. But McCullum kept playing till the third day. On the third day of play, when Virat Kohli again said sorry to Zaheer at tea time, he got angry. Zaheer got angry at Kohli and said- 'You have ended my career.'

Zaheer's Clarification
that he did not say it like this. I had said that only two players have been like this. First Kiran More, who dropped Graham Gooch's catch and he scored 300 runs. After this there is Virat Kohli, who dropped a catch and someone scored 300 runs. According to Zaheer, after this Virat told him not to talk like this. Zaheer told that Kohli did not like this, because a lot of runs were scored after the dropped catch. This incident happened during the Basin Reserve Test in Wellington. This was the second Test match of the series. This proved to be the last Test match of Zaheer Khan's career. However, he took five wickets in this match.

Ishant-Zaheer pair was successful
Let us tell you that at one time the fast bowling pair of Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma used to be very successful. Together, both have given many important successes to Indian cricket . The pair of Zaheer and Ishant have 311 wickets to their name in Test cricket. Let us tell you that Ishant Sharma has not played a single match for India since December 2021. However, he has not announced his retirement yet.

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