Congratulations, Shakib Al Hasan
15 October 2009, 17:00 PM
At first, I would like to thank Shakib Al Hasan for his great achievement. Frankly, I was surprised when I heard that Shakib Al Hasan won the Wisden Cricket magazine's Test Player for 2009 for his great performance.
The triumph came on the back of a sterling season for Shakib, in which he took 45 wicket including five five wicket hauls and scored 498 runs in 8 Tests.
For this achievement he had to contest with others cricket superstars like Gautam Gambir and Graeme Smith.
Shakib said, "It is very exciting. I am extremely happy and it is really the best award I have ever had because journalists from all over the world voted for me. This joy is heard to express in words."
I hope he will do even better in the days to come.
Mohammed Jamal Uddin, Dept. of English
International Islamic University Ctg.
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Congratulations, Shakib Al Hasan for your achievement. We are proud of you. You are now Wisden magazine's Test Player of the Year for 2009. The Wisden Cricketer is the world's biggest selling cricket magazine, launched in 2003 after the merger between Wisden Cricket Monthly and the Cricketer. This prize is for the Tests played between September 2008 and the end of August 2009. In the eight Tests Shakib played in that period, he took 45 wickets with his left-arm spin, including five five-wicket hauls, and scored 498 runs at an average of 35.57.
It is great going!
Mahfuzur Rahman Manik, IER, Dhaka University
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Apropos the report "Shakib Al Hasan, the world-beater" (October 09), no congratulation is enough for Shakib Al Hasan for his brilliant all-round skills on the field which fetched him the prestigious Wisden award of the Test player of the year. Unlike T20 or ODI, Test cricket remains the ultimate yardstick for judging the character or prowess of a cricketer and Hasan has passed the "litmus test" with head held high, eclipsing the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Strauss. Also we should not forget that Bangladesh gets much lesser opportunities to play international cricket than the "elite" teams which make Hasan's feat all the more creditable.
Not only is he a great all-rounder, Hasan is also a brilliant captain who led from the front and helped to bring laurels for Bangladesh in recent tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe. Thus with Hasan in their midst, the Bangladeshi cricketers will surely conquer the world in near future. Lastly, I thank the Wisden authorities for remaining neutral and giving due honour to the eligible ones, a trait which is increasingly becoming rare in this clout-driven world.
Kajal Chatterjee, Peerless Nagar, Kolkata
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