Shakib’s all-round performance leads MT to beat Litton’s SJ
Shakib al Hasan, GT20
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Bangladesh T20I captain Shakib al Hasan sparkled with his all-round performance as he scalped three wickets along with his national team mate Litton Das’s wicket in their opening match of Global T20 Canada in Brampton and the all-roudner scored 26 off 13 with the bat.
With Shakib’s top-notch performance Montreal Tigers managed to beat Surrey Jaguars by five wickets.
Earlier, Montreal chose to bowl first and restricted Jaguars for 136 runs.
With a six over the deep fine-leg boundary, Surrey Jaguars vice-captain Litton got a good start but Shakib ended his opening innings of the tournament.
In the sixth over of the game, Litton faced Shakib and a short ball from the Montreal Tigers star ruined his match as he miss judged the ball and sent it straight to Abbas Afridi at cover. Litton made 9 off 11 balls.
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Shakib’s next victim was Pargat Singh (15 off 15) as Muhammad Wassem caught a good running catch from deep mid-wicket.
The Southpaw finished his spell with 4-18-3 after trapped Matthew Forde in LBW in his last over.
From 92 of 6, Pakistan star captain Iftikhar Ahmed and Dillon Heyliger lead the struggling Jaguars to a moderate total.
They made an unbeaten 44 runs partnership, Iftikhar was not out for 40 off 44 with 2 sixes and one four and Dillon scored 18 from 16 balls.
During the chase Montreal Tigers’ promising start was clogged by Bernard Scholtz when he dismissed skipper Chris Lynn for 22.
Shakib came to bat at three and immediately attacked the Jaguar bowlers, with four 4s and 1 six he quickly made 26 from 13 balls.
The Ace all-rounder’s fiery innings came to an end after the power play with Nepalese Sandeep Lamichhane’s opening ball of his spell. Iftikhar grabbed Shakib’s catch to end his day’s play.
Montreal was struggling with two quick wickets but Dilpreet Singh and Dipendra Singh Airee posted a 53-run partnership to tackle the situation.
Lamichhane broke the partnership and took his second wicket by trapping Airee in Leg-before-wicket. Airee scored 28 off 22.
Dilpreet (28 off 31) was steady to lead his team to the finish line.
