Ishant Sharma reveals never-heard anecdote about when Virat Kohli almost ENDED Zaheer Khan’s Test career

Brendon McCullum slammed 300 after Kohli dropped his catch earlier in the game off a delivery bowled by Zaheer.

Ishant Sharma reveals never-heard anecdote about when Virat Kohli almost ENDED Zaheer Khan’s Test career

Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma (Images via ESPN, Twitter)

Ishant Sharma recently revealed an interesting story about former India pacer Zaheer Khan involving Virat Kohli and his apologies. Ishant said Kohli’s persistent apologies for a dropped catch off Zaheer’s bowling led to the latter declaring how that dropped catch ended his career.

During the recently-concluded Test series in West Indies, where Ishant and Zaheer were in the commentary box where the former talked about this never-heard story. India were playing New Zealand in 2014 at Wellington.

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Brendon McCullum slammed 300 after Kohli dropped his catch earlier in the game off a delivery bowled by Zaheer. Ishant said Kohli was saying sorry to Zaheer again and again as McCullum was unshakable at the crease.

“Virat said sorry to Zaj and Zak said ‘No worries, we’ll get him out’. During tea, Kohli said sorry again and Zak told him not to worry. On the third day when Kohli apologies to the team, Zak told him, ‘You’ve ended my career!‘” said Ishant.

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Zaheer Khan corrected Ishant Sharma and revealed what he actually told Virat Kohli

Ishant Sharma reveals never-heard anecdote about when Virat Kohli almost ENDED Zaheer Khan's Test career
Zaheer Khan (Image via Twitter)

Zaheer Khan corrected Ishant Sharma and said he did not say to Virat Kohli that his career has ended. He actually told the former India captain that there were only two players who scored 300 after their catch was dropped.

First was Graham Gooch who scored 300 after Kiran More dropped his catch and the second was Brendon McCullum who reached the triple hundred after Kohli dropped him. Zaheer said when he told Kohli this, he got angry because he wouldn’t have felt good about the same.

Interestingly, that match also turned out to be Zaheer Khan’s Test match in his international career. Both he and Ishant have surprisingly, 311 wickets each in Test cricket with 11 fifers and one ten-wicket haul. Zaheer has retired from all forms of cricket but Ishant still hasn’t; he last played an international match back in December 2021.

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