Best Indian ODI XI comprising of players from Mumbai 

2011 ICC World Cup
2011 ICC World Cup

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11. Zaheer Khan

India v Bangladesh: Group B - 2011 ICC World Cup
India v Bangladesh: Group B - 2011 ICC World Cup

Zaheer Khan has been India’s best left-arm seamer in one day cricket till date. Zaheer, who started off as a tearaway seamer, developed into a complete fast bowler adding a lot of variety in his bowling armoury.

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Post Javagal Srinath’s retirement from international cricket, Zaheer led the Indian pace attack with distinction and became India’s frontline seamer along with Ashish Nehra and Ajit Agarkar under Sourav Ganguly's captaincy. Bowling with a left arm angle, Zaheer had the ability to swing the ball both ways which made him a really dangerous customer.

Zaheer transformed into a world-class seam bowler post his highly successful county stint with Worcestershire and Surrey. He added a variety of deliveries in his stock to bamboozle the batsmen and used the yorker to great effect in the death overs.

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'Zak' had a brilliant outing in India’s 2011 World Cup winning campaign and ended up as India’ leading wicket-taker in the showpiece event. Besides his bowling, he was quite useful as a tailender scoring some quick runs down the order with his lusty hitting.

Zaheer Khan Bowling Record in ODIs

Matches 194 Wickets 269 Avg 30.11 SR 4.95

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