It wasn’t really a great game for one of the superstars and most sought after cricketers in the shortest format Shakib Al Hasan in the Bangladesh Premier League 2022. His side Fortune Barishal lost to Minister Group Dhaka by four wickets. He could also score only 23 runs and took only one wicket.
But in this very inconsequential game with both ball and bat, the all-rounder reached a milestone that has been scaled by only one player prior to him in the entire world. Playing his 353rd T20 game in his 16-year long career in the shortest format, Shakib became only the second player after West Indies’ Dwayne Barvao to complete the double of 400 wickets and 5000 runs in the shortest format.
However, this feat will not be remembered much by Shakib as it came almost at the end of the match when the opposition side needed only one run to win the match and the opposition skipper Mahmudullah Riyad, in an attempt to hit for four over covers was caught at short covers. Shakib also has 5610 runs to his kitty at an average of 20.25 and at a strike rate of 120.
The only other player in contention to enter the list is another Caribbean in Andre Russell who has so far claimed 350 wickets and hit 6563 in 395 T20s.