Cricket-Injured India bowler Zaheer to return home

ByABC News
April 4, 2014, 6:20 PM

— -- LAHORE, Pakistan, April 3 - India's left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan is going home after being ruled out of the rest of the Pakistan tour by the recurrence of a hamstring injury. The 25-year-old suffered the injury during the match at Multan earlier this week and did not bowl in the second innings as India recorded their first test victory on Pakistani soil. "After consulting a specialist, we decided to send Zaheer Khan back because his fitness for the third test was also in doubt," India team manager Ratnakar Shetty told reporters on Saturday. Zaheer, who has a history of hamstring trouble and was out for the two months preceding the tour with the same problem, has been replaced by left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra for the second test, which starts in Lahore on Monday. The third and final test in Rawalpindi starts on April 13.