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00:12With the rise of his time, big news has come to light about Zaheer Khan.
00:18This Indian former star is returning to the IPL.
00:22Zaheer Khan is assigned a big responsibility by the IPL franchise Lucknow Supergiants.
00:29LSG has appointed Zaheer as its mentor.
00:32In 2022, LSG, which debuted in the IPL, has appointed Zaheer Khan instead of Gautam Gambhir.
00:40Even after Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of the Indian cricket team in the last few days,
00:45the discussion was on the force that Zaheer Khan can take his place.
00:4945-year-old Zaheer Khan was a part of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2014.
00:56Zaheer's count is one of the best and most accurate calculations in the history of Indian cricket.
01:07The team of Lucknow Supergiants came into existence in 2022.
01:10Then this team chose Gautam Gambhir as its mentor.
01:14Gautam Gambhir remained the mentor of LSG from 2022 to 2023.
01:18But next year, that is, in 2024, Gautam left Lucknow and took over Kolkata Knight Riders.
01:27Since then, this post was vacant in the Lucknow team.
01:30Now Zaheer Khan has been chosen on this post.
01:32In the first two years, the team of Lucknow performed well and decided the way to the playoffs.
01:38But in the year 2024, LSG was unable to repeat this performance and missed making a place in the last four.
01:45In the IPL 2024, Lucknow Supergiants was in 7th place in the points table.
01:50He had 14 points in 14 matches.
01:52With 14 points, RC also reached the playoffs.
01:57Because of the poor net run rate, Lucknow was in 7th place.
02:00In this case, Zaheer Khan will have a lot of responsibility on his shoulders.
02:04If we talk about Zaheer Khan, he has played IPL for 10 years.
02:08As a player, he has been a part of three different teams.
02:11First, he was with the Mumbai Indians team.
02:14After that, he played with the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
02:16And then in the last, he played with the Delhi Daredevils.
02:20In 10 seasons, Zaheer has played 100 matches for three teams.
02:24In which he scored 102 wickets from 7.58 economy.
02:29He played his last tournament as a player in 2017.
02:33After that, from 2018 to 2022, Zaheer was again associated with the Mumbai Indians.
02:39During this time, he served the team as the first cricket director and then as the head of global development.
02:50The story of Zaheer Khan's entry into international cricket is also very interesting.
02:54Actually, Zaheer Khan got a chance to play directly in the Indian team.
02:58And for this, the person who had recommended his name,
03:01that person had also been the commander of Team India's fast-paced attack for many years.
03:08This is the year 2000.
03:10Zaheer Khan was playing the KSCA Invitational Tournament in the RSI ground in Bangalore.
03:15This was the first time that Srinath had seen Zaheer counting.
03:20At that time, Jawaharlal Srinath was also present on the spot.
03:23At that time, Srinath himself was fighting with injury.
03:25At the same time, the Indian team needed a fast count.
03:30Happy with Zaheer's performance, Srinath spoke to the then Chairman of the Chayyan Committee, Chandu Borde.
03:37He said that he is such a bowler who is playing better than him at the moment.
03:41He should be given a chance to play directly from Team India.
03:45That's all Srinath had to say and Zaheer Khan got a chance to join Team India.
03:51After this, Zaheer was selected for the ICC knockout in Team India.
03:55And he played his first match against Kenya in October 2000.
04:00Zaheer completely trusted Srinath.
04:03And in his first match, he gave 48 runs in 10 overs and took 3 wickets.
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