Comments on: World's best all-rounders

By: mumtaz kaleem

mumtaz kaleem — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:34:19 +0000

boom boom shahid khan afridi is a biggest all rounder of the world

By: Graeme Swann « Dominic Sayers

Graeme Swann « Dominic Sayers — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:07:37 +0000

[...] in the recent test match against New Zealand means that Graeme Swann is now the only member of my all-rounders table without a test match hundred to his [...]

By: Shakib Al Hasan « Dominic Sayers

Shakib Al Hasan « Dominic Sayers — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:32:10 +0000

[...] my recent post about the World’s Best All-Rounders a reader asked me why I hadn’t included Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh in my list. The reason [...]

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:36:58 +0000

Shane Watson, by the way, only has 27 test wickets (which surprised me). I’m sure he will join the list if his body allows him to carry on bowling.

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:53:41 +0000

Shakib Al Hasan took the remaining wickets he needed to qualify in his outstanding 5/62 in India’s first innings.

Unfortunately he only scored 17 in Bangladesh’s reply so his batting average has dropped to 29.28.

He needs 48 or 18* in the second innings to qualify for my all-rounders list.

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:43 +0000

Worcestershire have signed Shakib Al Hasan from July onwards.

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:39:51 +0000

Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh has taken 48 test match wickets at an impressive average of 28.27. He has scored 715 runs at 29.79 including a match-winning 96* against the West Indies in July, when he was also chosen as Man Of The Series for his 13 wickets.

To qualify for my list he needs another 2 test wickets and he also needs to get his batting average up another 0.21 runs. He is clearly a very talented player so he may well achieve this in the test match against India starting on Sunday.

I hope he makes it. If he does, his x-factor will be about 373 which puts him ahead of Kapil Dev. Not quite the world’s best all-rounder, but this is a pretty exclusive list he will join.

If I was a county chief executive (or IPL franchisee come to that) I would be on the phone to his agent right now. If I was Geoff Miller I would be in Tower Hamlets trying to find a family with an eligible daughter with a UK passport.

By: Juanyed Tahmid

Juanyed Tahmid — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:02:49 +0000

Where is Shakib AL Hasan the worlds best allrounder???

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:37:10 +0000

Do you have a certain person in mind?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:12:14 +0000

You could add a column of ‘most test matches drawn instead of won due to unfeasibly selfish batting for own average’.