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A left-armer stole the limelight from Sidebottom later in the summer, however. Zaheer took 18 wickets in the three Tests, including nine during India's seven-wicket win at Trent Bridge, leading many to consider him the best left-armer India had ever possessed. His excellence was of little surprise to Worcestershire's supporters, the club at which Zaheer honed his variations in 2006. "Playing for Worcestershire meant playing in different conditions, pitch and weather for five months. You had to innovate, use your thinking power," he told Pradeep Vijayakar in his piece in the Almanack. |
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