Swastik Chikara and Zeeshan Ansari keep Meerut Mavericks in title hunt
Swastik Chikara’s 1,600 runs and Zeeshan Ansari’s wickets keep Meerut Mavericks in UPT20 contention.
Swastik Chikara sits on top of the UPT20 run charts with 1,600 runs. Zeeshan Ansari’s leg-spin has done the rest, and together they’ve steered Meerut Mavericks to eight wins from ten.
Ansari spent nearly five years out of first-class cricket before he got a second shot. Time at Sunrisers Hyderabad under Muttiah Muralitharan and Daniel Vettori sharpened the variations, and he was back in the India A squad earlier this season.
Meerut sit second on the table with two matches left. The final is next week in Lucknow.
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Ansari’s return also shows how a franchise stint can quietly reset a career that looked finished, even when the player is nowhere near the national radar.