In his fourth World Cup, Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has taken his all-round game to a whole new level.
During this year’s Indian Premier League season, Shakib Al Hasan found himself warming the benches more often than not. The all-rounder featured in only three matches for his team, Sunrisers Hyderabad. But he did not sit around moping. The Bangladesh Test and Twenty20 International captain got his mentor Mohammad Salahuddin to come and work with him. The agenda was to work on his all-round skills, ahead of the World Cup.
Two months later, lighter by almost 6kg, Shakib is in the limelight on cricket’s biggest stage. His displays for Bangladesh in England have lit up the World Cup, as he rewrites records. Established top batsmen are all among runs this time, but Shakib, 32, has grabbed eyeballs with his all-round heroics. He has become the first player ever to score 400 runs and take 10 wickets in a single edition of the World Cup. In six games so far, he has scored two centuries (against West Indies and England) and three half centuries (against Afghanistan, New Zealand and South Africa). Wielding his magic with both bat and ball once again against Afghanistan at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton, he was outstanding—scoring 51 and then ending the Afghan resistance with bowling figures of 29 for 5. He has become the first Bangladesh player to cross 1,000 runs in the World Cup.
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