Akbar made it into ESPNcricinfo Top 20
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh’s Under-19 World Cup-winning captain Akbar Ali on Monday was selected by the Cricket Monthly magazine of ESPNcricinfo as one of the 20 cricketers who would dominate the next decade.
The wicketkeeper-batsman, who played a big part in Bangladesh Under-19 team’s win against their Indian counterparts in the World Cup final with an unbeaten 43, was hailed by the magazine for his calmness under pressure, solid batting technique, and the eye and temperament of an accumulator.
The magazine did not impose any age limit for the selection as the youngest cricketer on the list was just 15 - the Afghan left-arm Noor Ahmad while the oldest was Pakistani fast bowler Haris Rauf, who was 26.
Instead the magazine placed caps on the number of international matches a player had played to be eligible: no more than five Tests or seven ODIs or seven T20Is as on December 31, 2019.
The names appear in no particular order.
To compile the list, the magazine asked 15 coaches, players, scouts, analysts and observers from around the world. They are — Tom Moody, Mike Hesson, Deep Dasgupta, HD Ackerman, Ian Bishop, AR Srikanth, Tim Wigmore, Russel Arnold, Paras Mhambrey, Hassan Cheema, Srinath Bashyam, Tamim Iqbal, Andy Moles, Jarrod Kimber and Robin Peterson.
The other 19 cricketers who were selected in the list of 20 cricketers for the 2020s are — India batsman Shubman Gill, England batsman Tom Banton, Afghanistan left-arm spinner Noor Ahmed, Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah, Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Josh Philippe, New Zealand all-rounder Rachin Ravindra, India fast bowler Kartik Tyagi, England batsman Ollie Pope, Afghanistan batsman Ibrahim Zadran, South Africa fast bowler Gerald Coetzee, India batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz, West Indies fast bowler Jayden Seales, Pakistan batsman Haider Ali, Afghanistan leg-spinner Qais Ahmad, Australia batsman Jake Fraser-McGurk, India batsman Prithvi Shaw, Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf and Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya.
