Bangladesh captain in Asia Cup 2022 Shakib Al Hasan couldn’t do a lot with the bat in hand within the all-important recreation vs Sri Lanka on Thursday (September 1). However the all-rounder nonetheless managed to register a large T20 document. He’s now solely the 2nd cricketer within the historical past of T20s to attain over 6,000 runs and take 400 wickets. Shakib scored 24 off 22 balls and it helped him cross the landmark of 6,000 T20 runs. He couldn’t choose up any wicket vs Sri Lanka however he has over 400 wickets within the format.
The primary and the opposite cricketer with greater than 6,000 runs and over 400 wickets in T20s is West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo. Bravo is method forward of Shakib in the meanwhile with 6871 runs and 605 wickets. Shakib at the moment has 6009 runs and 419 wickets.
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— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) September 1, 2022
Bangladesh put up 183/7 batting first
Bangladesh batters produced an impactful efficiency to assist their facet put up a difficult 183/7 towards Sri Lanka. The entire innings ebbed and flowed with each groups throwing punches at one another however finally, Bangladesh had been profitable in placing on a aggressive complete on the board in a must-win recreation.
Put into to bat first, Bangladesh promoted Mehidy Hasan Miraz (38 off 26) to open the innings and he gave them a flying begin. Nonetheless, Sri Lanka fought again with wickets at common intervals within the center overs.
Afif Hossain then got here on and took the sport by the scruff of the neck and slammed his method to a 22-ball 39, giving impetus to the innings. He put a 57-run standoff 37 balls for the fifth wicket earlier than getting out within the seventeenth innings. For Sri Lanka, Chamika Karunaratne returned with figures of two/32, whereas Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva scalped 2/41.
