Wasim and Waqar never helped me - Zahid
Mohammad Zahid, the former Pakistan bowler who was among the fastest in his time, speaks to PakPassion.net about his initiation into cricket, his experience bowling with Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, the current state of fast bowling in Pakistan
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Mohammad Zahid, the former Pakistan bowler who was among the fastest in his time, speaks to PakPassion.net about his initiation into cricket, his experience bowling with Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, the current state of fast bowling in Pakistan and his plans for the future.
It saddens me to think that just 10 years ago each domestic team had at least one bowler who was consistently clocking over 90mph. In those days it wasnt a big deal for a Pakistani bowler to clock 90mph nobody would get excited by it. But these days if we see a player clock 140k then 'poore Pakistan mai shor mach jaata hai' (the whole of Pakistan starts shouting his name).
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo