Yikes!! A zombie table in Hbase.

In the process of playing around with HBase through the shell, I suddenly experienced a strange error.   When  I tried to create the table, I  got an error that the table exists .  When trying to delete, it complained that the table never existed.

 I later realized that Zookeeper had an entry of the table . Below are the steps I followed to delete the entry   from zookeper. 

 Start Zookeeper client . To do that, run  hbase zkcli
From the prompt, i ran ls /hbase/table to see the list of tables 
To delete the zombie table,  I ran  delete /hbase/table/{tablename}