IPL 2025: Zaheer Khan Gautam Gambhir is currently the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team. Earlier, Gambhir appeared as the mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024 and even before that Gambhir was the mentor of Lucknow Super Giants. After Gambhir, no new mentor came to the Lucknow franchise. However, now talks are going on about Zaheer Khan. If media reports are to be believed, Zaheer Khan can fill Gambhir’s vacant position in Lucknow.
Let us tell you that apart from a mentor, Lucknow Super Giants also lack a bowling coach. Now the team’s bowling coach Morne Morkel has also left the post. Morkel has also become a part of the coaching staff of the Indian cricket team. In such a situation, Zaheer Khan seems even more fit in the role of a mentor, because he can also train the team’s bowlers.
According to the Cricbuzz report, talks are going on between Zaheer Khan and Lucknow Super Giants. However, no official information has been shared by Lucknow Super Giants or Zaheer Khan regarding this matter. Now it will be interesting to see whether Lucknow Super Giants makes the former Indian pacer a mentor or not.
Played all three formats for India
It is worth noting that Zaheer Khan was a fast bowler who played all three formats for India. Zaheer played international cricket from 2000 to 2014. He played 92 Tests, 200 ODIs and 17 T20 International matches for Team India. In Tests, Zaheer took 311 wickets at an average of 32.94. Apart from this, the Indian pacer took 282 wickets in ODIs at an average of 29.43, in which 5/42 was the best bowling figure. In the remaining 17 innings of T20 International, he took 17 wickets at an average of 26.35. During this, he conceded runs at an economy of 7.63. Zaheer Khan’s best bowling figure in T20 International was 4/19.
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