Zaheer undergoes ankle surgery Zaheer Khan,who was ruled out of the England series due to an ankle injury,underwent surgery. Zaheer,who bowled just 13.3 overs in the first Test at the Lords last month before injuring himself,went under the knife on Monday. Got the surgery done on ankle on Monday, Zaheer wrote on his Twitter page. In his latest tweet,he wrote,Recovering well .. getting used to walking on crutches. Meanwhile,Indian team manager Anirudh Chaudhry on Thursday clarified that seamer Praveen Kumar was rested for the final Test due to ankle injury and not thumb injury. Praveen was suffering from pain in his left ankle from an injury sustained while bowling in the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test Match between England and India at Edgbaston, a media release said. ECB planning No.1 bash The ECB will invite former players to celebrate the teams rise to the top of Test rankings. The Board will be inviting players involved in Englands rise to the top to attend the final day of the fourth Test against India at The Oval,The Daily Mail reported. The ECB will go back as far as 2007 to compile a guest list of cricketers deemed to have been pieces in the jigsaw,the report added. As many as 23 cricketers,including the 13 in the squad,have represented England in Tests since Andy Flower took over as coach of the team. The event is likely to witness the presence of Paul Collingwood,Andrew Flintoff,Steve Harmison,Monty Panesar and Ryan Sidebottom apart from former captain Nasser Hussain,among those,who are not the part of the squad. Flower reportedly will also use the occasion to credit the role played by Hussain,who helped mastermind Englands recovery along with the current Indian coach Duncan Fletcher after the team slipped to the bottom of the rankings in 1999 following its lost to New Zealand at home. Feels sensational to be the top side England coach Andy Flower has said that reaching the number one spot in the Test rankings is a sensational feeling. It feels simply sensational to claim the number one spot and it comes after a lot of hard training sessions and Test matches. It was a goal that spurred the whole side on and its very satisfying to have achieved that goal, said Flower. The Zimbabwean also heaped praise on two ICC Awards 2011 nominees,Alastair Cook and James Anderson,for their noteworthy contributions. While Cook has been instrumental in helping his side reach the top of the pile with his career-best 294 last week at Edgbaston,Anderson has been the pick of Englands attack,having already taken 18 wickets in the series. Cook has done some amazing things as a player. With already 19 Test centuries,he can be proud of a very successful career. He is a good person,modest but strong in his way.
