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.