Between the current T20 series played between the subcontinent sides Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, a Bangladeshi batsman has come forward and mentioned former South African legend AB de Villiers as his icon in world cricket.
The batsman reflected the former RCBian’s positive attitude and someday indicated his desire to follow his footsteps, to be a finisher like AB de Villiers. It is none other than Bangladesh’s hero from Sri Lanka, Shamim Hussain, who played a stunning role with Bangladesh hero.
Cricket has always been playing an inspiration, and a Caliber player of AB de Villiers has inspired several generations during his sports days and still continues to do so with his inspirational comments.
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Coming to the Bangladesh batsman, Shamim Hussain’s innings came under pressure in the lower order, a lot like Abd, not to bat on the batsman, not the batsman. 6. The batsman then claimed that he was happy with his position and considers AB de Villiers as his icon.
“I am not worried about my batting position. The place where I am batting right now, I am very confident there,” Shamim said. “Whenever I go out to bat, my plan is to be positive. Someone has to take a risk, and I want to take the responsibility for the team,” the young cricketer made a wonderful claim.
Bangladeshi Youngster said, “I like AB de Villiers’s batting, and I always try to be positive like that. T20 cricket is all about being positive, and I think if I will be positive, I will do well,” said Bangladeshi Youngster.
Extensive statistics of AB de Villiers in international cricket
South African legend made his debut in 2004 for Protease as a 20-year wicket-keeper batsman. Since Marks were the main gloves on the Boucher side, de Villiers played a majority of his career as an expert batsman in the middle order.
He has shown 114 Test matches for South Africa, 228 Odis and 78 T20 Internationals and scored 20000+ runs in his international career, which was declared his retirement in 2018 from his start in 2004.
AB de Villiers has several wickets-keeping as well as records of his name, while the batsman also had a great impact in playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
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Shamim show in 2 T20 vs Sri Lanka
Like the ODI series, Bangladesh again came from behind to win the second T20i against Sri Lanka. Although they had lost the ODI series, they would aim to a win in the T20 series to ensure.
He has won a widespread victory on the host side by a huge margin of 83 runs. Batting first, Bangladesh posted 177 as a skipper Linton Das, which was ahead with 50-goals, and the shock for the innings was from a Quickfire innings by Shamim Hussain, who played a knock of 48 runs off just 27 balls.
Shamim told reporters after the game, “First, we won the match, and this is the most pleasing thing. Now the series is 1-1, so this victory was important to us.” “Now we have a chance to win the series, and hopefully, if we play well, we will win it,” Shamim reflected on his positive attitude with the team.