Youngest player to play BBL: Watch 15-year old Noor Ahmad picks maiden Big Bash wicket on Melbourne Renegades debut

Dixit Bhargav | 19/12/2020
Youngest player to play BBL: Watch 15-year old Noor Ahmad picks maiden Big Bash wicket on Melbourne Renegades debut

Noor Ahmad picks maiden Big Bash wicket: The uncapped Afghani spinner has become the youngest player to play in the Big Bash League.

During the 10th match of the ongoing 10th season of the Big Bash League between Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Renegades in Hobart, 15-year old Afghanistan spinner Noor Ahmad became the youngest player to play in the BBL.

Making his debut for Renegades at the Bellerive Oval, Ahmed also picked a wicket to register a successful debut which saw him picking bowling figures of 4-0-27-1.

It was on the penultimate delivery of the eighth over when Hobart Hurricanes captain Peter Handscomb’s (13) attempt of taking on the rookie spinner saw him giving a simple catch to Jake Fraser-McGurk at deep mid-wicket.

However, wicket-keeper batsman Ben McDermott’s fifth T20 half-century sealed a 158-run chase for Hurricanes in the 18th over. Coming in to bat at No. 3 in the first over itself, McDermott ended up scoring 89* (55) with the help of seven fours and five sixes to be declared the ‘Man of the Match.

After Handscomb won the toss and invited Renegades in to bat, the visitors scored a below par 157-5 despite a 109-run partnership for the third wicket between wicket-keeper batsman Sam Harper (66*) and batsman Rilee Rossouw (59).

With bowling figures of 4-1-19-2, Hobart’s Scott Boland was the pick of their bowlers. Apart from Boland, Nathan Ellis, Riley Meredith and James Faulkner picked a wicket apiece.

Noor Ahmad picks maiden Big Bash wicket

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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