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Zahir Khan

Team flagAFG25 yrs
batting styleleft-arm chinaman Bowler
#96 Bowler in Test
BBL 11 | Watch : An umpiring howler costs Ben Duckett his wicket

Shubro Mukherjee ∙ 13 Dec 2021

BBL 11 | Watch : An umpiring howler costs Ben Duckett his wicket

Brisbane Heat's star batsman Ben Duckett was not very happy as he was wrongly adjudged LBW by the on-field umpire in the clash against Melbourne Renegades. Duckett got out after scoring 11 runs in 10 deliveries. Trying to play the sweep shot off a Zahir Khan's delivery, Duckett got deceived as the ball crashed onto his front pad. The leg-spinner appealed and the umpire was confident enough to give the decision in the bowler's favour. However, as the replays showed, it seemed the ball would have certainly missed the leg-stump. With DRS (Decision Review System) not available in the Big Bash League, Duckett had no option other than to walk back to the dressing room. Although, he expressed his disappointment at the decision but nothing could have been done due to the lack of technology. Talking about the match, Brisbane Heat gathered an easy win in their encounter against Melbourne Renegades. After winning the toss, Brisbane opted to bowl. As none except Mackenzie Harvey managed to score big, the Renegades could only reach a total of 140 runs. With the vital contributions from Chris Lynn and Sam Heazlett, Brisbane Heat breezed past the target set for them in just 16.5 overs.

BBL 2021 | Zahir is much harder to pick than Mujeeb: Glenn Maxwell

Somya Kapoor ∙ 13 Dec 2021

BBL 2021 | Zahir is much harder to pick than Mujeeb: Glenn Maxwell

Melbourne Renegades’s Zahir Khan produced a brilliant show with the ball against Brisbane Heat in Queensland on Monday. Zahir returned with figures of 2/27 in 4 overs scalping the wickets of Chris Lynn and Ben Duckett. While Lynn was dismissed for a 15-ball 32, Duckett was trapped in front of the stumps for 11 runs in 10 deliveries. Melbourne Stars captain Glenn Maxwell explained how Zahir makes it difficult for the batters to negotiate him. “Zahir is much harder to pick than Mujeeb because Zahir bowls most of his deliveries with a scrambled seam. So you can't read the seam rotation of his wrist spin to pick him. Have to pay attention to the hand position,” he said. Talking about the match, Brisbane Heat clinched a win by 5 wickets while chasing a target of 141 in less than 17 overs. Sam Heazlett who remained unbeaten at 44 off 29 anchored the side to a win. Earlier, Mackenzie Harvey had struck 71* off 56 for Melbourne to help his side put 140/6 on the board. For Brisbane, it was Bazley who scalped three wickets for 28 in 4 overs while Mujeeb didn’t pick up any wicket but was pretty economical as he only gave 19 runs in his four overs.

BBL 11 | Pattinson’s brilliant last over, Zahir Khan’s amazing spell catalyst in thrilling Renegades win

Abhishek Singh ∙ 7 Dec 2021

BBL 11 | Pattinson’s brilliant last over, Zahir Khan’s amazing spell catalyst in thrilling Renegades win

James Pattinson, the fast bowler once regarded as a pure class made for Test cricket, delivered with the ball in the shortest format fr his team Melbourne Renegades. The Gades who finished last year at the bottom of the table got off to a winning start as they defeated Adelaide Strikers by two runs in a thrilling last over encounter at their home ground of Docklands. Pattinson, who was given the duty to defend nine off the last over bowled a brilliant one in which he did not concede any boundary and also removed Wes Agar. He gave away only six runs that came from three doubles on the last three balls, thereby winning the game for his team. Prior to Pattinson, Kane Richardson, the stand-in captain in place of Aaron Finch who missed this game due to injury, also bowled a good 19th over after English import Reece Topley had given away 15 in the 18th over to bring the equation down to 18 from the last two. Richardson got the wicket of dangerous-looking Daniel Worral and had given way just five runs before a boundary of the last ball made the match really interesting. The Strikers would not have been in such difficult conditions if they had converted a brilliant start. Matthew Short and Jake Weatherlad had taken the Strikers to 45 without loss in the first five overs. However, Zahir Khan planned differently and removed both the players in quick succession. The wicket of Weatherland though was more of fielder Jake Fraser-McGurk who caught a blinder at the boundary line. Harry Nielsen tried building partnerships with Jonny Wells and Ryan Gibson. While the former was removed by Zahir as his third scalp, Gibson was retired gurt after an ankle injury. Soon Nielsen was caught out off the bowling of Will Sutherland and Daniel Drew, who was playing his debut BBL game was left to try and win it for the Strikers with the tail. Rashid Khan tried to support him with a quickfire 11, but it wasn't enough as Drew himself wasn’t able to clear the field as frequently as was required. Earlier in the evening, after winning the toss and deciding to bat first, Renegades got off to a great start courtesy of Mackenzie Harvey and Sam Harper. The openers added 65 in only 8.4 overs before the stand was broken. While Harper made 33, Harvey went on to bring up his fifty and was supported well by James Seymour who made 23 off 14 balls. But after the fall of these three batters, the men in red lost the plot. None among the late hitters in Mohammad Nabi, Sutherland and Jonathan Merlo could build on to the platform given to them by the top order. In fact, Renegades lost six wickets in the last three overs and could make only 14 runs. If they had lost this game, those last three overs would have haunted them for sure.