Khulna is Bangladesh district famous for three things forest mangroves, Bengal tiger and Shakib ul hassan, yes he is the man who colored the History book of Bangladesh Cricket with his all round performance. the day 24th of march 1987, when the city of tigers gave birth to the tiger of the cricket world. Shakib ul hassan is the only man who had made 10000 plus runs and 550 plus wickets in the International Cricket for Bangladesh.
Shakib played dozens of career best matches but his performance in the ICC WC2019 is marvelous for himself and his team in every match. He is the only all rounder in the history of ICC World cups who has made five hundred plus runs and ten plus wickets in a single edition. He has scored five hundred plus runs so far with two fantastic centuries and four fifties and is in top five batsmen, ten plus wickets made him the best all rounder of the tournament and this journey is going on.
Shakib success story not ended with his rule for ten years as best and number one all rounder and in ICC WC2019 here, he is also the best fielder in his team and in the words of the great fast bowler Waqar Younas “when stats finalized to pick the all rounder for the tournament best eleven nobody can exclude Shakib Ul Hassan”.
Shakib made two brilliant back to back centuries against England 121 and West Indies 124* while the five fifties included today’s match against India (66), New Zealand (64), South Africa (75), and Afghanistan (51). he had scored 41 against Australia which is his bat’s lowest.
Shakib Ul Hassan is the only player from Bangladesh playing the world leagues like IPL, PSL, BPL, BBL, CPL and English counties in a calendar year.
He was all round performer for Worcestershire in the season 2010-11 and later in the season of 2013 for Leicester-shire.
India qualified for Semifinal after defeating Bangladesh by 28 runs, Tigers outed
Bangladesh lost the match against India by 28 runs in which lot of mistakes become sad memories but the catch drop of Rohit by tameem is the night mirror for tigers. Rohit than made the longest opener partnership of the ICC WC2019 with KL Rahul and his another ton 104. Captain Virat praised his innings “Rohit is our key player and his game always gave us confidence same he did today and hoped he will do for three more games” Virat in post match interview.