2024-07-28 21:41:22
Shariful Islam has had the experience of playing multiple franchise cricket before this. Bangladesh’s left-handed pacer wrote his name for the first time in Global T20 in Canada yesterday. Shariful did not start badly with the ball. But his team Bengal Tigers lost the match against Mississauga by a big margin.
Shakib Al Hasan played in the same team with Shariful. The Bangladeshi superstar, however, has had a fading day with the bat-ball. Shariful took 1 wicket for just 16 runs in 4 overs including a maiden. Later, he came down to bat at the end and scored 8 runs in 4 balls with a six. And after remaining wicketless with 30 runs, Shakib scored 3 runs in 6 balls with the bat.
After losing the toss and batting first, Montreal Tigers scored 189 runs for 6 wickets. In response, Bengal Tigers Mississauga could not score more than 156 runs for 8 wickets. Shariful, Shakibra lost the match by 33 runs.
Shariful’s bowling in Canada started with a wide. But he did not take time to turn around. He kept the runs on tight bowling. He got his first breakthrough in his last over but his bowling was controlled earlier. His victim in the last over was Mantenti who scored 40 off 22 balls. In all, the Montreal batsmen could not score any runs in 15 balls in his bowling spell of 4 overs.
On the other hand, Shakib did not get any wicket but did not give too many runs. He stopped his bowling spell at 30 runs. Shakib has not had big runs with the bat for a long time. That tune seems to have been retained in Canada. He took only 1 wicket in four matches played in the US Major League Cricket. Couldn’t reach double figures in the last two matches. This time he got stuck for 3 runs.
Expectations are sky high for Shakib as he captains Canada. Can Shakib fulfill that expectation?