Zaheer Khan [ Images ], who underwent a shoulder surgery in mid-July, is to return to cricket action during the West Zone Twenty20 [ Images ] league to be held at Pune from October 20-25.

Khan was on Tuesday named in the 15-strong Mumbai squad, to be led by Wasim Jaffer [ Images ], along with young wicket keeper batsman Aditya Tare who earned his berth after hitting a century in the under-22 tie against Karnataka [ Images ].

Khan was in the Mumbai Indians [ Images ] camp that was held recently at Vadodara and started bowling there.

The Mumbai T20 squad: Wasim Jaffer (c), Ajit Agarkar [ Images ], Zaheer Khan, Ramesh Powar [ Images ], Abhishek Nayar [ Images ], Rohit Sharma [ Images ], Ajinkya Rahane [ Images ], Sushant Marathe, Siddharth Chitnis, Aditya Tare, Dhaval Kulkarni, Saurabh Netravalkar, Abhishek Raut, Ankit Chavan, Iqbal Abdulla. Coach: Pravin Amre.