India fast bowler Zaheer Khan quits international cricket
Thursday 15 October 2015 09:20, UK
India fast bowler Zaheer Khan has announced his retirement from international cricket.
The left-arm paceman, 37, will continue to play domestic Twenty20.
Khan was a member of India's 50-over World Cup winning team in 2011, and last played for the country in a Test match in New Zealand in February last year.
"With immediate effect, I bid adieu to my career in international cricket. I look forward to signing off my last season in domestic cricket at the conclusion of Indian Premier League season 9," Zaheer said on his official Facebook page.
Zaheer, who played the first of his 92 Tests against Bangladesh in 2000, has been hit by a series of injuries in recent years.
He took 311 Test wickets and 282 in one-day internationals, the fourth highest totals in both formats for India.
