Shakib al Hasan matches Yuvraj Singh’s World Cup record as best all-round performance

Shakib al Hasan has matched Yuvraj Singh's feat of taking 5 wickets and scoring 50 runs in the same World Cup match.

Shakib al Hasan became only the second cricketer in history to do the double of taking a five-wicket haul and score a fifty in the same World Cup match.

Yuvraj Singh was the only person who had scripted this feat previously. Yuvraj achieved the feat on March 6, 2011, when he ended up with bowling figures of 10-0-31-5 against Ireland and hit 50* off 75 balls to help India win their group match.

Against Afghanistan in Southampton on Monday, Shakib scored 51 in the first innings as Bangladesh posted a total of 262/7 in 50 overs.

In the second innings, he ran through the entire Afghanistan middle order, finishing with figures of 5/29 in his 10 overs. He took the wickets of Gulbadin Naib, Rahmat Shah, Asghar Afghan, Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran.





Shakib also scripted a feat that had never been done before. He has become the first person in history to score more than 1000 runs and take more than 30 wickets in World Cup history. No player, across countries, has done this unique double.

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