Bangladesh’s star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was adjudged “Man of the Series” with each bat and ball within the historic 4-1 collection win over Australia at residence. Shakib stated the crew was very impressed after successful the Zimbabwe collection and backed themselves to make historical past towards an inexperienced Australian crew.
“When you play with the big teams there is always an inspiration – usually the ones that don’t tour our country,” Shakib instructed reporters in a media interplay on Monday. “Also, we had a very good collection in Zimbabwe and so everybody was motivated to do properly on this collection as properly. We had by no means gained a collection towards Australia and so this was our probability. So, we wished to do properly as a unit, which occurred.”
Also, it ought to be famous that no Australian community purchased the printed rights for the five-match collection. This is the primary time after 27 years that his cricket crew’s tour of Australia has not been telecast.
Despite lacking out on worldwide cricket for a yr, with seven wickets towards the Aussies, he now has 102 wickets and is second within the listing of highest wicket-takers in T20Is. The left-arm spinner wants six extra wickets to overhaul Lasith Malinga and turn into the main wicket-taker within the format.
Any such achievement clearly seems good,” stated Shakib. “This kind of personal achievement inspires you to do good for your side… I am really happy, and I think I will be able to contribute and strive for many more days.”
Congratulations to .@sah75official To turn into the primary Bangladeshi bowler in T20I historical past to take 100 wickets and solely the second bowler general#bcb #RiseOfTheTigers pic.twitter.com/ay86xHEvO6
— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) August 9, 2021
On pitches in Bangladesh the place the best rating within the collection was 132 and Australia recorded their lowest rating of 62, the 34-year-old feels the hosts fell quick by 10 to fifteen runs in every match.
“We probably could have scored 10 or 15 more runs every match, because we were in situations where it was possible to do that,” he stated. “But the wickets were so difficult” [to bat on] It was all the time robust for a brand new batsman [to play]. So it might be unfair to evaluate somebody on the idea of only one collection as a result of the situations had been actually robust for the batsmen.
Shakib took 4 for 9 in 3.4 overs, together with a maiden within the remaining match, the place Australia didn’t chase down 123 runs and misplaced the match by 60 runs. He additionally topped the collection for Bangladesh with 114 runs in 5 matches.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
