Shakib Al Hasan
Bangladesh team remains in the race to reach Super 8 with a 25-run win against Netherlands in T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, Bangladesh team got a chance to bat first in which they scored 159 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. Shakib Al Hasan played an important role with the bat for Bangladesh in which he faced 46 balls and played an unbeaten innings of 64 runs with the help of 9 fours. On the basis of this innings, Shakib has reached the second position in a special list with Virat Kohli as soon as he scored a half-century. His fifty was seen in the history of T20 World Cup after many years.
Shakib ended the 8 year long wait
In world cricket, Shakib Al Hasan is considered one of the best all-rounder players in the T20 format. However, in the T20 World Cup, he last scored a half-century in the edition played in the year 2016 before the start of this tournament. Shakib’s fifty came in the match against Pakistan. After this, Shakib Al Hasan could not show any magic with the bat in the T20 World Cup played in the year 2021 and 2022. At the same time, when Shakib scored his half-century in the T20 World Cup this time in the match against the Netherlands, he also managed to end the long wait of 8 years 2 months and 27 days.
He became the second player to do this after Virat Kohli
Shakib Al Hasan equaled a big record of Virat Kohli by scoring a half-century in the match against Netherlands. Shakib has now reached the second position after Kohli in terms of scoring 50 or more runs the most number of times as a non-opening batsman in ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup combined. Shakib has done this feat 17 times so far, while Virat Kohli, who is at the top of this list, has managed to do it 31 times.
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