Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who played for Barbados Tridents in the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL), has been named in the CPL team of the tournament, as selected by an experts panel.
Shakib’s Barbados Tridents reached the semi-final of the tournament and the Bangladeshi picked up 11 wickets in eight matches – including figures of 6-6 against the Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel on August 3, which is the second best bowling figures in T20 history. The all-rounder’s batting, however, proved to be disappointing and he only scored 22 runs in the tournament – which was won by Chris Gayle’s Jamaica Tallawahs.
Gayle, Shoaib Malik and Marlon Samuels were also included in the 11 along with Shakib, but Bangladeshi Tamim Iqbal did not make the list. Tamim, who played for the Saint Lucia Zouks managed to score 162 runs in the tournament, although his side failed to reach the last four.
The team was selected by Mike Procter, Jeffrey Dujon, Mike Haysman, Craig Cozier, Billy Bowden, Nigel Duguid, Joel Wilson and Danesh Ramdhani.
