2024-05-07 14:33:00
Shakib Al Hasan scored a century in List ‘A’ cricket five years after taking the field in the previous match. Shakib scored 107 runs off 79 balls with 9 fours and 7 sixes for Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club. The left-handed spin all-rounder got involved in a new achievement with the ball in the last round match of the Dhaka Premier League today. Shakib reached the milestone of 400 wickets in List ‘A’ cricket with 2 wickets.
Shakib completed 400 wickets with the wickets of Prime Bank Cricket Club’s Shahadat Dipu and Zakir Hasan. Shakib became the third bowler of Bangladesh to achieve this feat. Before that, spinner Abdur Razzak was the first to touch this milestone. Mashrafe Bin Mortuza became the second bowler to get four hundred wickets in List ‘A’ cricket. After them, Shakib entered the elite club today.
It took Razzak 269 matches to touch 400 wickets. 287 of Mashrafe. And Shakib is playing his 308th match today. Three people touched this record at different venues. Razzaq in Mirpur, Mashrafe in BKSP and Saqib in Fatullah.
Very few Bangladeshi cricket superstars play or get a chance to play domestic cricket. Whenever he gets it, he excels. Shakib’s wicket in ODI cricket is 317. Shakib got the remaining 83 wickets in the recognition competition.
Mashrafe is still ahead of everyone in the number of wickets. The right-arm pacer got 468 wickets in 343 matches. Abdur Razzak got 412 wickets in 280 matches. It remains to be seen whether Shakib can surpass Mashrafe at the end of his career.