Hyderabad, Jan. 19 -- Hyderabad pacer Mohammed Siraj has scaled a new peak by becoming the third ranked seam bowler in the world in ODI cricket at the present. Hyderabad is famous for producing talented spinners. Beginning with Ghulam Ahmed, there have been tweakers such as Shivlal Yadav and Arshad Ayub in the off spin department, Venkatapathi Raju and Pagyan Ojha in left arm spin and M.V. Narasimha Rao in leg spin. M.L. Jaisimha also used to bowl off breaks. There are a host of other gifted spinners who could not make it into the Indian team but were good enough to do so.

But in the use of seam and pace, the number of bowlers from Hyderabad are not so many. Siraj is among the best. No other pace bowlerhas reached this level or rank in O...