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The maths and economic undergraduate started like a tracer bullet - racing to 23 off 11 balls - before allowing Moeen to attack. Since he's come in he has scored 43 off 23 balls, a 28-ball 45, before tonight's 65. Smeed was a late call-up for the Phoenix, and he didn't feature in their opening three games. View more on twitter 'I just stand there and whack it'

Ball 74: The googly, and the ball goes in between the bat and pad of number 11 David Payne (cue Tahir racing round the ground in celebration part three).

Ball 73: The quicker one from Tahir and it skids through and hits Adam Milnes plumb in front (cue Tahir racing round the ground in celebration part two).

Ball 72: Afghanistan spinner Qais Ahmad tries to hit over the top but chips straight to mid-off (cue Tahir racing round the ground in celebration part one).

He had already claimed the big wicket of Glenn Phillips, a man who possesses the power to take a game away from a side, and Leus du Plooy.īut the hat-trick that followed was absolute theatre. The Phoenix can probably barely believe they were able to pick up a man with 293 international wickets.

Tahir, who made his first-class debut five years before Smeed was born, was picked up by Manchester Originals in the original draft in November 2019, but was released when teams were able to re-draft as a result of the pandemic.

Manchester Originals could go top of the table if they beat London Spirit on Tuesday Tahir stars as Phoenix win big Phoenix, who started the night in fifth, climb above Trent Rockets on net run-rate while Welsh Fire are seventh. Smeed was ably supported by captain Moeen Ali, who made a blistering 28-ball 59 and hit three successive sixes off Graeme White, in front of a sell-out Edgbaston crowd of almost 18,000.įire, who are now all-but eliminated, never got going in their reply - losing regular wickets throughout as they slipped to 91 all out from just 74 balls.

That was after the youngest player in the tournament - 19-year-old Will Smeed - smoked an unbeaten 65 off 38 balls as Phoenix smashed their way to 184-5, the highest score in the tournament.