Shakib Al Hasan is a Bangladeshi cricketer born March 24, 1987, in Magura District, regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the sport's history for his aggressive left-handed batting and slow left-arm orthodox bowling. He has scored more than 4,000 Test runs and taken more than 200 Test wickets, and more than 6,000 One Day International runs with more than 270 ODI wickets, becoming the fastest player in history to reach the double of 5,000 ODI runs and 250 ODI wickets, and he holds the record as the all-time leading wicket-taker at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. He captained Bangladesh to its first-ever Test victory over England in 2016, was named Player of the Tournament at the 2012 Asia Cup, broke Sachin Tendulkar's group-stage run record at the 2019 Cricket World Cup with 606 runs, and won the Indian Premier League twice with Kolkata Knight Riders, in 2012 and 2014.
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Career HighlightFastest player in history to reach the double of 5,000 ODI runs and 250 ODI wickets 1 Classification
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born 24 March 1987
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1987-03-24
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is a Bangladeshi international cricketer and captain
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becoming the fastest player in history to achieve the double of 5,000 runs and 250 wickets in ODIs
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Shakib Al Hasan (Bengali: সাকিব আল হাসান, romanized: SÄkib Äl hÄsÄn; born 24 March 1987) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer and captain who played Test, ODI and T20I cricket for the Bangladeshi cricket team.
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Shakib Al Hasan (Bengali: সাকিব আল হাসান, romanized: Sākib āl hāsān; born 24 March 1987) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer and captain who played Test, ODI and T20I cricket for the Bangladeshi cricket team.
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He is considered one of the most impactful players of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, where he broke the record of maximum runs scored in the group stages of the World Cup which was previously held by Sachin Tendulkar and finished as the third-highest run-scorer, scoring 606 runs in total at the tou
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