Biography-Zaheer Khan

The Indian bowler Zaheer Khan was born in 1978 at Shrirampur town of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. He became a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. He is a left-arm pace bowler who has the ability to swing the ball in two ways. He has a record of making the highest test score (75 runs) as the last batsman against Bangladesh in 2004.

Zaheer made his test debut at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka against Bangladesh in 2000/2001, where he got 3 wickets giving 69 runs in both the innings. He played his first ODI match against Kenya at Nairobi in the year of 2000 where he hunted 3 wickets giving 48 runs.

He has played a total 76 test and 175 one-day matches in his career. He took 261 test wickets and 241 ODI wickets. He got ten and five wickets 1 and 10 times respectively in test match and 1 time in the ODI match. His best bowling figure in the test is 7/87 and in the ODI is 5/42.

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Biography-Vijay Hazare

Vijay Samuel Hazare, known as Vijay Hazare, was an Indian cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium bowler. He served his team from the year 1951 to the year 1953 as a captain. He was well-known for getting India the first test victory in the history against England at Madras in 1952. In that match, India won by one innings and 8 runs. Hazare scored 20 runs and got 1 wicket giving 15 runs in that match. It was the 25th test of India. India had to wait 20 years to win a test match after getting the test status.

Hazare was the first batsman of India who obtained the first triple century in the first-class cricket. He was the first Indian who scored a century (116 and 145 runs against Australia) in both the two innings of the test match. He also became the first Indian player to score 50 centuries in the first-class cricket.

He started the test cricket in a match against England at Lord’s in 1946. He scored 65 runs and took 2 wickets giving away 107 runs in that match.

Vijay Hazare has played a total 30 test and 238 first-class matches in his career. His highest scores are 164 and 316 in the test and first-class matches respectively. He has 7 test centuries and 60 first-class centuries. In test, his total run is 2192. For first-class match, it is 18740. His overall batting average is 47.65 in the test match and 58.38 in first-class match. As a bowler, he took 20 test wickets and 595 first-class wickets.

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