{"id":1501,"date":"2016-01-09T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2016-01-09T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T12:37:08","slug":"shakib-on-the-brink-of-bettering-afridi-with-unique-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/01\/09\/shakib-on-the-brink-of-bettering-afridi-with-unique-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakib on the brink of bettering Afridi with unique double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever he takes the field, records keep following. Whenever he performs, records get tumbling one after another. He is Shakib Al Hasan, the number one all-rounder in the world.<\/p>\n<p>There is already a number of \u2018doubles\u2019 under Shakib\u2019s belt. And now another unique double awaits the maverick all-rounder ahead of the four-match T20I series against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The ace all-rounder is on the brink of becoming only the second cricketer in the history of T20I cricket to score more than thousand runs alongside picking over 50 wickets. The first man to touch the feat was Shakib\u2019s Pakistani counterpart Shahid Afridi.<\/p>\n<p>When the Pakistani flamboyant unlocked the elite panel of such unique record for the first time, he was already a 69-match veteran by then. But there is no doubt Shakib will better him once he reaches the feat. Because Shakib already has 843 runs and 45 wickets to his name, but for all these he had to play 38 matches only.<\/p>\n<p>So it can be said that with needing 157 runs and 5 wickets, if Shakib can play up to his potential during the forthcoming Zimbabwe series, the record of fastest T20I \u2018double\u2019 will be of his wage for sure!<br \/>\ninfo-daily sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever he takes the field, records keep following. Whenever he performs, records get tumbling one after another. He is Shakib Al Hasan, the number one all-rounder in the world. There is already a number of &lsquo;doubles&rsquo; under Shakib&rsquo;s belt. And now another unique double awaits the maverick all-rounder ahead of the four-match T20I series against Zimbabwe. The ace all-rounder is on the brink of becoming only the second cricketer in the history of T20I cricket to score more than thousand runs alongside picking over 50 wickets. The first man to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}