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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Saddam's boy leads Bangladesh charge

This design taken upon Dec 6, 2010 shows Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan delectable for a exclusion during an one-day general in Dhaka. If Saddam Hossain had not intervened, Shakib, Bangladesh’s World Cup captain as good as heading all-rounder, might have been mislaid to football.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – If Saddam Hossain had not intervened, Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh’s World Cup captain as good as heading all-rounder, might have been mislaid to football.

Growing up in Magura, a tiny locale divided from a collateral Dhaka, Shakib was bending upon football, a diversion his father played during a bar turn whilst a cousin had represented a country.

The usually couple with cricket was an occasional diversion with a taped tennis ball, though it was sufficient for a internal central declared Saddam Hossain to see a intensity Shakib had with both bat as good as ball.

Saddam invited a immature kid to fool around for his bar in a Magura cricket joining as good as Shakib responded by claiming a wicket off his initial smoothness with a normal cricket ball.

Shakib’s career took off as good as he is right away tip all-rounder in a central one-day rankings forward of stalwarts similar to Jacques Kallis of South Africa, Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi as good as Australian Shane Watson.

This when Bangladesh go upon to long for during series 9 in a rankings forward of usually Ireland, Zimbabwe, a Netherlands as good as Kenya.

Graphic display group groupings in a Cricket World Cup from Feb nineteen to Apr 2. Shakib was a star actor for Bangladesh in a final World Cup in a Caribbean, where a minnows knocked out India in a initial turn as good as afterwards dumbfounded South Africa in a Super Eights.
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In 102 one-day internationals given his entrance in 2006, a left-hander has scored 2,834 runs during 34.98 with 5 hundreds as good as seventeen half-centuries.

He has additionally claimed 129 wickets during 28.80 with his left-arm spin, with a most appropriate of 4-33 opposite New Zealand in Christchurch final year.

Shakib, who turns twenty-four upon Mar 24, has loads of courage as good as is dynamic to surpass a other, either a team-mate or rival.

“Whenever any a single outperforms me, either in academics or sport, we discuss it myself that if he could do it, so can I,” Shakib told Cricinfo in a new interview.

“If someone from a group is adjudged male of a match, we feel a honour could have been cave as well. It’s not possessiveness – my team-mates’ success patently gives me a lot of happiness – though if he could, because couldn’t I?”

Often asked if he was a batting or bowling all-rounder, Shakib has a single answer, as elementary as his diversion in a middle. “I am a cricketer,” he says.

Shakib was a star actor for Bangladesh in a final World Cup in a Caribbean, where a minnows knocked out India in a initial turn as good as afterwards dumbfounded South Africa in a Super Eights.

But he goes in to his second World Cup a demure leader, carrying publicly laid open a shortcoming bearing upon him given he longed for to combine upon his batting as good as bowling.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board deliberated tough upon a captaincy prior to appointing Shakib after comparison pro Mashrafe Mortaza went down with a repeated knee injury.

His cricket-crazy nation, that co-hosts a World Cup with India as good as Sri Lanka, will goal Shakib continues to lead from a front.

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