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Shakib's Test match legacy - one of the game's greatest all-rounders

Shakib is right up there among Test cricket's greatest matchwinners
Shakib is right up there among Test cricket's greatest matchwinners ©AFP

As Bangladesh prepare to take field in the tour game preceding the two-Test rubber in the Caribbean, they will be starting a Test series without either of Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, or Tamim Iqbal for the first time in 18 years. Tamim swapped the bat for a microphone, announcing his retirement last year while Mushfiqur is nursing an injury. Shakib, the greatest Test cricketer to emerge from Bangladesh, is absent from the proceedings after the unfortunate events back home that prevented him from playing at home last month.

This will be Bangladesh's last Test series in this WTC cycle, and they are not scheduled to play another until their tour to Sri Lanka in June-July 2025. With Shakib announcing his desire to bow out of International cricket after Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan, it is safe to assume he has already made his final appearance in red ball cricket for Bangladesh. In his 17-year old career, Shakib has donned various caps for his country in the longest format that of a captain, leader, their talismanic batter and the leader of the bowling attack, though at times he has divided opinions thanks to his shenanigans on and off the field. As Bangladesh prepare for a post-Shakib era in Test cricket, here's a lowdown on his glorious career through numbers.

Test career

Batting

Tests Inngs Runs Avg SR 100s/50s HS
71 130 4609 37.77 61.67 5/31 217

Bowling

Wkts Avg SR 5-fers BBI 10-fers BBM
246 31.72 63.7 19 7/36 2 10/124

1 - Shakib is the only player that features in the top five list of run getters as well as wicket takers for a team, amongst the ten oldest sides in the format. Shakib hangs his boot as his country's top wicket taker with 246 wickets and is third in the list of leading run scorers with 4609 runs to his name, behind Mushfiqur Rahim (6007) and Tamim Iqbal (5134).

39.27% - Shakib has contributed 13.24% of the total runs scored by batters for his team while accounting for 26.03% of the wickets taken by his team's bowlers. Among players to feature in 50+ Tests, Shakib's cumulative contribution is dwarfed only by two players - Richard Hadlee for New Zealand and Muttiah Muralitharan for Sri Lanka.

Total percentage contribution to a team (50+ Tests)

Player Runs Runs % Wkts Wkts % Total %
Richard Hadlee 3124 8.16 431 35.71 43.87
M Muralitharan 1261 1.88 800 40.28 42.16
Shakib Al Hasan 4610 13.24 246 26.03 39.27
Ian Botham 5200 10.73 383 26.34 37.07
Imran Khan 3807 9.10 362 27.91 37.01

Runs % calculated only from runs scored off the bat while wickets % if only from the wickets to bowlers in Tests featuring the player.

7 - Shakib is one of the seven players with the double of 4000+ runs and 200+ wickets in Test cricket and his positive difference between batting and bowling averages is only bettered by Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis, two legends considered the greatest all-rounders to have graced the game. Shakib is one of the two spinners on the list, the other being Daniel Vettori.

Double of 4000+ runs and 200+ wickets in Tests

Player Mat Runs Bat Avg Wkts Bowl Avg Avg Diff
Garfield Sobers 93 8032 57.78 235 34.03 23.74
Jacques Kallis 166 13289 55.37 292 32.65 22.71
Shakib Al Hasan 71 4609 37.77 246 31.72 6.05
Ian Botham 102 5200 33.54 383 28.40 5.14
Ben Stokes 107 6561 35.27 203 32.21 3.31
Kapil Dev 131 5248 31.05 434 29.64 1.40
Daniel Vettori 113 4531 30.00 362 34.36 -4.36

3 -All-rounders aggregating the double of 3000+ runs and 150+ wickets across a span of 50 (or fewer) consecutive Tests in their career (an average of 60 runs & three wickets per match) - Garfield Sobers, Ian Botham, and Shakib.

Shakib has done so over 25 overlapping 50 (or fewer) Test sequences - same as Sobers - while Botham done it 16 times. What makes Shakib's achievement standout is the fact that Bangladesh plays far less frequently compared most other teams which would mean him having to sustain the form across both disciplines over longer periods, which the southpaw has done with aplomb.

Player Sequences Period Runs Bat Avg Wkts Bowl Avg Avg diff
Garfield Sobers 25 1958-69 4893 64.38 154 32.18 32.20
Shakib Al Hasan 25 2009-22 3672 42.70 190 31.00 11.70
Ian Botham 16 1979-84 3064 37.83 207 27.39 10.44

(Only the sequence with the best average differential for the player shown in the table)

23.49 - Difference in Shakib's batting and bowling average in Bangladesh's wins - he averaged 44.33 with the bat and 20.84 with the ball in the 15 winning Tests he was part of. Up until the end of 2018, Shakib was Bangladesh's single biggest match winner either scoring 100+ runs or taking five-plus wickets or at times both, in each of their 11 wins in this period.

3- Shakib is one of the three cricketers to achieve the double of a century and a ten-wicket haul in the same Test, which he did against Zimbabwe in Khulna in 2014 (137 & 10/124). The other two to achieve the exceptional feat are Ian Botham (114 & 13/106 vs India, Wankhede, 1980) and Imran Khan (117 & 11/180 vs India, Faisalabad, 1983).

2 - Instances of a player scoring 1000+ runs and picking 50+ wickets at a venue - both belonging to Shakib. In 21 Tests in Mirpur, Shakib scored 1583 runs and have 76 wickets to his name while in 20 appearance in ZAC Stadium in Chattogram, he has hit 1029 runs and bagged 68 scalps.

19 - five wicket hauls for Shakib is the third most among left-arm spinners in Tests behind Rangana Herath (34) and Daniel Vettori (20). He is the sixth highest wicket taker among left-arm spinners behind Herath (433), Vettori (362), Ravindra Jadeja (319), Derek Underwood (297), and Bishan Singh Bedi (266).

4- Shakib is one of the four bowlers to taken five wicket hauls against nine different oppositions. The other bowlers to do the same are Muralitharan, Dale Steyn, and Rangana Herath. He is one of the few cricketers to have played against all 11 opposition sides in Test cricket and has failed to pick up a five-fer only against Afghanistan and Ireland, against whom he featured only once each.

217 - by Shakib against New Zealand in Wellington in Jan 2017 was the then highest individual score for Bangladesh in Test cricket before Mushfiqur Rahim went past it in 2018 when the latter hit an unbeaten 219 against Zimbabwe in Mirpur. It also remains the only double hundred by a Bangladesh batter in Tests outside the sub-continent. Despite the volume of runs, Bangladesh ended up losing that Test, making Shakib's 217 the fifth highest individual score in a losing cause from any team.

Shakib forged a 359-run stand between Mushfiqur for the fifth wicket in the above Wellington Test which remains the highest ever partnership for any wicket for Bangladesh.

Shakib also held the record for the best bowling figures for Bangladesh when he picked 7/36 against New Zealand in Chattogram in 2008 before overhauled by Taijul Islam six years later. He is one of the select few players to hold the record for both highest individual score and best bowling figures for his team in the format.

Shakib was aged 22 years & 115 days when he led Bangladesh for the first time in Tests, against West Indies in Kingstown in 2009. He is the youngest to do so for Bangladesh and sixth youngest ever to lead any side in the format. He last captained them in April 2023 against Ireland, making his captaincy reign to last for 5013 days - although he was at the helm in only 19 Tests - making it the second longest captaincy tenure behind Bob Simpson's 5237 days.

In his last appearance, Shakib also became the oldest player to appear in a Test for Bangladesh, aged 37 years & 191 days on the fifth and final day of the Kanpur Test.

3 - Shakib is one of the three bowlers and the only spinner to bag 100+ wickets across each of the three formats in International cricket, Lasith Malinga and Tim Southee being the other two. To go with his 246 scalps in red-ball cricket, Shakib has 317 and 149 in ODIs and T20Is respectively.

Shakib for Bangladesh and Rashid Khan for Afghanistan are the only bowlers to top the wicket taking charts for their country across each of the three formats.

5- Players of the Series awards for Shakib - the most for a Bangladesh player in Tests, while no other player has more than two. Shakib's six Player of the Match awards was also a Bangladesh record for a long while before Mushfiqur surpassed him in the recent tour to Pakistan.

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