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All-round Shakib propels Montreal Tigers to thump Surrey Jaguars in GT20

BRAMPTON: Seasoned all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan backed his 3/18 with a quickfire 26 and powered Montreal Tigers to a five-wicket victory over Surrey Jaguars in the third match of the Global T20 (GT20).

Opting to bat first, the Jaguars could post a below-par 136/6 in the allotted 20 overs despite Iftikhar Ahmed’s unbeaten 40.

The Jaguars got off to a poor start to their innings as they lost Alex Hales (1) in the second over with just nine on the board.

Jatinder Singh and Litton Das (9) then put on a quick 35-run partnership for the second wicket before both perished in successive overs.

Singh scored a brisk 27 off 15 deliveries with the help of five boundaries.

Jaguars’ captain Iftikhar Ahmed walked out to bat at number five when his side was in dire need of a subtle partnership.

The Tigers’ bowlers, however, denied Jaguars any recovery and struck twice in quick intervals to leave them reeling at 92/6.

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Iftikhar Ahmed stood his ground firm and played a cautious 40-run knock. He also put on an important 44-run partnership with Dillon Heyliger (18 off 16).

Shakib Al Hasan led the bowling attack for the Tigers with 3/18, followed by Abbas Afridi’s 2/25 while Kaleem Sana made one scalp.

Set to chase a modest total, Tigers comfortably raised 141/5 in response with nine balls to spare.

Tigers’ skipper Chris Lynn (22) and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan (26) made vital contributions in the early phase of the run chase before Dilpreet Singh and Dipendra Singh Airee gave the final touches.

Singh and Airee remained the joint top-scorer for the Tigers with 28 each.

Airee, who batted at a brisk rate, fell in the 17th over while Singh carried his bat all the way through and steered his side to glory.

The victory marked Montreal Tigers’ first in the ongoing GT20 and lifted them to claim the second spot in the standings.

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Shakib Al Hasan named ICC Player of the Month for March 2023

DUBAI: Bangladesh veteran Shakib Al Hasan has been named the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for his stellar performances in March 2023.

“Shakib overcame tough competition from Kane Williamson of New Zealand and Asif Khan of UAE to walk away with the coveted prize,” said ICC in a media release on Wednesday.

The 36-year-old led Bangladesh from the front during their unforgettable home season when they recorded a historic 3-0 clean sweep over the reigning Men’s T20 World Champions England.

He dismissed a batter in each of the three T20Is while finishing the game for his side in the first match with an unbeaten 24-ball 34.

Earlier, the talismanic all-rounder also finished both as the highest run-scorer and wicket-taker for Bangladesh during the ODI series against England. In his side’s only win of the series, Shakib starred with a 71-ball 75 and followed it up with a four-for to take the Player of the Match award.

He was already in his prime when Ireland visited Bangladesh, thus, the veteran played a match-winning 93 in the first ODI. Later in the second T20I of the series, he scored a 24-ball 38* and then went to pick up five wickets inside the Powerplay in a dominating all-round display.

In the 12 games played in March, Shakib amassed 353 runs and picked up 15 wickets.

After winning the award for the second time, Shakib thanked the panel that voted for him ahead of a pair of his competitors.

“I am honoured to win the award and would like to thank the expert panellists who have voted for me,” he said.

“This is a recognition I greatly value because there are so many special performances in a month from a number of amazing cricketers.

“If I was to pick my highlight from the past month, it has to be the T20 series sweep against England and, with the team continuing to perform beautifully as a unit in all departments, it is easier for me now to concentrate on my role and contribute.”

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Shakib overtakes Southee to become leading T20I wicket-taker

CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh veteran Shakib Al Hasan surpassed New Zealand’s pacer Tim South to become the highest wicket-taker in the shortest format of the game.

Shakib achieve this feat during his match-winning performance in the second T20I against Ireland at Chattogram where he took his career’s second five-wicket haul.

Bangladesh skipper now has 136 wickets in T20I cricket at an average of 20.67 and an economy rate of 6.8. Besides, he also has 2339 runs to his credit at a strike rate of 122.33.

The all-rounder made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe all the way back in 2006 and has featured in 114 T20Is so far. He has appeared in all seven editions of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

It may be noted here that Shakib’s all-around heroics which included an unbeaten 38 and 5/22 steered Bangladesh to an easy win by 77 runs over Ireland on Wednesday.

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Shakib, Towhid set up record Bangladesh win against Ireland

SYLHET: Shakib Al Hasan and debutant Towhid Hridoy both narrowly missed centuries but still guided Bangladesh to a record 183-run victory over Ireland in Saturday’s first one-day international in Sylhet.

Shakib hit 93 and Towhid added 92 to guide Bangladesh to their highest ever ODI score of 338-8 after the tourists put them in to bat.

Ebadot Hossain led the reply with 4-42 and left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed chipped in with 3-42 to bowl out Ireland for 155 runs just shy of 31 overs.

“The way we batted was exceptional. Wasn’t the easiest wicket to bat for the first 20 overs. But Shakib was brilliant, Towhid also impressive,” skipper Tamim Iqbal said after the match, according to Cricbuzz.

George Dockrell was the last man dismissed after making 45, Ireland’s highest total.

Stephen Doheny and Paul Stirling put on 60 runs in the opening stand but once Shakib dismissed Doheny for 34 Ireland collapsed to 5-76, never to recover.

“We were not too disappointed at the halfway stage as the wicket was good and the best time was to bat under lights,” Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie said.

“But we kept losing wickets and didn’t get any partnerships.”

Graham Hume finished with a career best 4-60 but the hosts shrugged off early pressure from the Irish bowling attack.

Shakib and Towhid added 135 for the fourth wicket to lift Bangladesh from 81-3 after Tamim (3), Litton Das (26) and Najmul Hossain (25) all fell cheaply.

He became the second Bangladeshi cricketer to reach 7,000 ODI runs after Tamim.

Shakib is now also just the third cricketer to surpass that milestone in ODI runs and 300 one-day wickets after Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi.

He shifted gears after reaching his third successive ODI fifty and hitting Harry Tector for five fours in an over.

He fell seven runs short of his 10th ODI hundred after chasing a wide yorker from Hume to get the bottom edge.

Towhid played the best debut innings for Bangladesh in ODIs, adding 80 runs for the fifth wicket with Mushfiqur Rahim, who struck 44 off 26 balls.

Hume removed both batsmen in the same over before taking the wicket of Taskin Ahmed but the tourists were unable to stop the flow of runs.

The remaining ODIs will be played in Sylhet on Monday and Thursday.

Ireland, who will also play three Twenty20 internationals and a Test during their tour, last visited Bangladesh for a bilateral series in 2008.

Shakib becomes first Bangladesh player to register 300 ODI wickets

CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh veteran Shakib Al Hasan became the first player from his country to pick up 300 wickets in the One-Day internationals.

The top-ranked all-rounder in white-ball cricket, Shakib, achieved the milestone during Bangladesh’s 50-run victory over England in the third ODI in Chattogram.

The 35-year-old took four wickets in the match to register his name into record books as Bangladesh’s first and overall 14th player in men’s 50-over cricket to take 300 wickets.

On the list of leading wicket-takers in the ODI format, Shakib has a chance to leapfrog many greats of the game if he continues to play till the upcoming ICC ODI World Cup, scheduled later this year in India. Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Murlitharan and Pakistan’s Wasim Akram are first and second on the list with 534 and 502 wickets respectively.

The left-hander showed great all-round heroics during the match as he top-scored for his side with a superb 75 before unsettling England’s batting lineup with impressive bowling figures of 4/35 from 10 overs.

The victory took Bangladesh to fourth place on the current Super League standings, with the top eight teams at the completion of the Super League qualifying directly for the Cricket World Cup at the end of the year.

PSL 8: Shakib, Neesham join Zalmi ahead of Karachi Kings clash

KARACHI: New Zealand all-rounder James Neesham and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan reached Pakistan on Monday to represent Peshawar Zalmi in the eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League.

Foreign players continue to arrive in Pakistan in a bid to play for their respective franchises in the PSL 8 which began yesterday in Multan.

\The two Peshawar Zalmi’s overseas picks landed in Karachi hours before the team’s first match of PSL season 8 against Karachi Kings today at National Bank Cricket Arena.

According to the details, Neesham will be available for today’s match.

Meanwhile, South Africa’s star spinner Imran Tahir also landed in Karachi earlier today and joined the Karachi Kings squad.

It may be noted here that the PSL season 8 kicked off on Monday with a curtain raiser between defending champions Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultan before a glittering opening ceremony.

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Nawaz, openers star as Pakistan down Bangladesh in tri-series thriller

CHRISTCHURCH: Mohammad Rizwan and skipper Babar Azam starred with brilliant half-centuries before Mohammad Nawaz smashed an unbeaten 45 off 20 to help Pakistan beat Bangladesh by seven wickets in a thrilling penultimate game of the Tri-series, here on Thursday.

Set to chase a respectable target of 174, the reliable duo, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, laid the strong foundation with a centurion opening stand to put Pakistan in a commanding position.

Batting at no 4, Nawaz played a superb cameo as he struck five boundaries and a six to ensure that he took his side home after a slight jitter in the middle.

The Green Shirts were sailing comfortably to the target before medium pacer Hasan Mahmud struck twice in the 13th over to send set batter Babar Azam (55 off 40) and incoming Haider Ali (0) back to the pavilion.

Following this minor hassle, Rizwan then joined hands with Nawaz and built another valiant partnership of 64 runs for the fourth wicket to take Pakistan near the finishing line before he fell prey to part-timer Soumya Sarkar in the second last over.

Player of the match, Rizwan top-scored for the side as he played a courageous knock of 69 off 56, laced with four boundaries.

Earlier, Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan and Litton Das scored magnificent half-centries as they stormed through the Pakistani bowling attack with a valiant 88-run partnership for the fourth wicket, helping their side to post a respectable total of 173/6.

Das starred with 69 off 42, laced with six fours and two sixes, while Shakib scored 68 off 42, including three sixes and seven fours, as the pair anchored Bangladesh’s batting after they slipped to 41/2 in the 6th over.

Opting to bat first after winning the toss, Bangladesh had a dismal start to their innings as opener Sarkar fell cheaply on 4 in the third over by pacer Naseem Shah before Mohammad Wasim got rid of Najmul Hossain Shanto.

Shakib then combined excellently with Das as they moved the scoreboard at an impressive speed in the middle overs and took the total to 129 in the 15th over before the latter was removed by Nawaz while hitting big.

Green Shirts, however, made a comeback in the death overs offering just 12 runs while picking three wickets in the last two overs.

For Pakistan, Naseem and Wasim bagged two wickets each while Nawaz took a scalp.

Emotional Bangladesh need more head than heart, says skipper Shakib

DUBAI: Skipper Shakib Al Hasan warned Bangladesh that they must keep their emotions in check after rivals Sri Lanka dumped them out of the Asia Cup cricket following a bitter war of words.

Sri Lanka won a do-or-die match in Dubai by two wickets and with four balls to spare on Thursday to move into the Super Four stage of the tournament, a prelude to the T20 World Cup.

Before the clash the two sides exchanged verbal volleys in media conferences with Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka saying Bangladesh lacked a world-class bowler other than Mustafizur Rahman and Shakib.

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud hit back, saying: “I don’t see any (world-class) bowler in Sri Lanka as well… we have at least two.”

The battle of words moved to social media with former Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene tweeting: “Looks like it’s time for (our) bowlers to show the class and batters to show who they are on the field.”

Shakib denied after the defeat that ended their Asia Cup hopes that the off-field chatter had affected them, but admitted his Bangladesh team needed to play more with their heads.

“We are very emotional. That is the other area we need to improve,” Shakib said, with the World Cup in Australia on the horizon in October-November.

“Keep our emotions on the side and play the way we need to play. More looking to give our head in the game than our heart in the game.”

Sri Lanka batsman Bhanuka Rajapaksa offered an olive branch to the Bangladesh players and said Shanaka’s words were misconstrued.

“The statement that the captain made, I don’t think he meant any wrong,” Rajapaksa told reporters.

“Of course, when you compare the (dangerous) Afghanistan bowlers, what we meant was we had a slight advantage facing the Bangladeshi bowlers.”

Rajapaksa added: “Like India-Pakistan, Sri Lanka-Bangladesh is also a good rivalry, but we are friends off the field.

“Some words could hurt the players and hurt the staff. But what the captain meant was not what went through the media.”

After a tempestuous build-up, Bangladesh posted 183-7, a total their bowlers failed to defend.

The Sri Lankan lower-order needed to get 25 runs from the final two overs and gained from the extra runs which came through wides and no-balls by the opposition bowlers.

Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lost their opening matches to Afghanistan, who sailed into the Super Four from the group.

Rajapaksa said his team went into hiding after their eight-wicket hammering to Afghanistan — the team they face once more in the next round on Saturday.

“It was quite shameful for us, the 11 who played this game, and we were not expecting to be bowled out for 105,” said Rajapaksa.

“Of course, Afghanistan is a pretty decent side when it comes to T20s but after the loss we went into a small shell for a couple of days, but we knew how to overcome that situation.”

The hard-hitting left-hander said Sri Lanka are relishing having another crack at Afghanistan, who have emerged as genuine title contenders.

“What we planned was to beat Bangladesh by hook or by crook,” he said.

“We managed to win and the motivation that the players have is immense, so going forward into Super Fours it will be quite interesting.”

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Bangladesh Cricket Board unveils squad for Asia Cup 2022

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member squad for the upcoming Asia Cup 2022, scheduled to commence on August 27 in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Following Shakib Al Hasan’s appointment as the new T20I captain, the BCB has also revealed their squad for the forthcoming Asian event.

Right-handed middle-order batter Sabbir Rahman made his way back into the national contingent after almost three years of absence.

Pakistan and India have already announced their squads for the continental event, while Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are yet to name their contingent.

It is pertinent to mention here that the 15th edition of the Asia Cup will kick start on August 27 as the hosts Sri Lanka square off against Afghanistan in the curtain-raiser.

Bangladesh Squad

Shakib al Hasan (c), Anamul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Saifuddin, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Sabbir Rahman, Mahedi Hasan Miraz, Ebadat Hossain, Parvez Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Taskin Ahmed

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Shakib Al Hasan to lead Bangladesh in Asia Cup, ICC T20 World Cup 2022

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday named their star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan to lead Bangladesh in the forthcoming Asia Cup and ICC T20 World Cup 2022.

Shakib, who was recently given an ultimatum by the BCB for his collaboration with a betting site, has now been handed over the leadership role by the cricket board for the upcoming major assignments – Asia Cup and T20 World Cup.

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— bdcrictime.com (@BDCricTime) August 13, 2022

The star all-rounder responded to the concerns raised by the BCB and withdrew from his endorsement with the allegedly illegal site.

“Shakib has informed us shortly before [now] that he has terminated the contract with the company. He said that all social media posts about that sponsorship will be deleted,” BCB’s cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus said.

Following his appointment as a new T20I captain, Shakib will also lead Bangladesh in the scheduled tri-series against Pakistan and New Zealand ahead of the T20 World Cup.

It is pertinent to mention here that the BCB is likely to announce the T20I squad for the Asia Cup on August 13 (today).

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