Shakib reaches another milestone as all-rounder
Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh reached another milestone in his career as he completed his 1000 Twenty20 International (T20I) runs on Wednesday. Shakib achieved the milestone during Bangladeshs first match in Super 10 round of the ICC World T20 2016 against Pakistan which makes it even more special, reports Cricketcountry.
Shakib took 50 T20I matches to reach his 1000 runs in the format. Shakib came in at No. 4 and scored 4 runs to achieve the feat. With this, Shakib Al Hasan became the second cricketer in the world to have 1000 runs and 50 wickets in the T20I format. The first cricketer to achieve this feat was Shahid Afridi who played exceptionally well in the current match.
The match, however, has not been fruitful for Bangladesh as Pakistan put up a huge total of 201 for them to chase.
The partnership between Hafeez and Shehzad remained to be the most crucial one as they went on to add 95 runs. Shehzad, after being dropped and re-included to the side, proved his worth scoring 52 off 39. Skipper Shahid Afridi promoted himself up the order and came out at No. 4. From there on, Hafeez and Afridi maintained the same run rate and took things forward. Afridi looked in a great touch as he punished each and every bowler hitting them all over Eden Gardens. Hafeez departed making a crucial 64 and departed as Soumya Sarkar took a brilliant catch at deep mid-wicket. Sarkar picked up the catch from over the ropes, threw it back to balanced himself and gripped it back to get the danger-man out.
