CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh veteran Shakib Al Hasan surpassed New Zealand’s pacer Tim South to become the highest wicket-taker in the shortest format of the game. 

Shakib achieve this feat during his match-winning performance in the second T20I against Ireland at Chattogram where he took his career’s second five-wicket haul.

Bangladesh skipper now has 136 wickets in T20I cricket at an average of 20.67 and an economy rate of 6.8. Besides, he also has 2339 runs to his credit at a strike rate of 122.33.

The all-rounder made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe all the way back in 2006 and has featured in 114 T20Is so far. He has appeared in all seven editions of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

It may be noted here that Shakib’s all-around heroics which included an unbeaten 38 and 5/22 steered Bangladesh to an easy win by 77 runs over Ireland on Wednesday.

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