Jake Fraser-McGurk solves mystery of the hidden ball

Nothing escapes the keen eyes of Jake Fraser-McGurk, that's for sure. He had his vision tested during the Big Bash League match between Melbourne Renegades and Brisbane Heat in Geelong while fielding a ball at the boundary.

Middle-order batter Hugh Weibgen pulled a ball by legspinner Matthew Spoors for four. Fraser-McGurk chased after the ball, which seemed to disappear once it crossed the boundary.

The miked-up fielder searched long and hard, under the advertising boards, the gutter, around the broadcasting equipment littering the sidelines, and told the commentators he reckoned it had gone into a camerman's backpack.

The cameraman hunted in his bag but couldn't find the ball. Eventually after another, possibly thorough search, he found it and Fraser-McGurk was vindicated. "You don't miss much, Rooster, do you," one of the commentators said admiringly to Fraser-McGurk, who chose to be modest about his keen eyesight. "Well, I was three metres away," and added that the cameraman "was convinced" he didn't have it in his backpack.

"I've never seen anything like that in my life," McGurk laughed.

Renegades won the match by 14 runs after opener Tim Seifert hit 102 off 56 balls and Oliver Peake smashed a 29-ball 57 to take them to 212. Heat struggled in their chase despite quick half-centuries from Colin Munro and Jimmy Peirson. Will Sutherland took 3 for 33 while Jason Behrendorff and Gurinder Sandhu took two wickets each. Meanwhile Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi had an inauspicious start to his BBL career, going for 43 runs in 2.4 overs on debut.