{"id":91425,"date":"2025-08-25T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91425\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:39:09","slug":"shakib-al-hasan-reaches-t20-bowling-milestone-in-falcons-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91425\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakib Al-Hasan reaches T20 bowling milestone in Falcons win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shakib Al-Hasan became the fifth player to take 500 wickets in T20 cricket in Antigua &amp; Barbuda&#8217;s victory over St Kitts and Nevis Patriots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-226827\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the Caribbean Premier League.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bangladesh all-rounder joins Afghanistan&#8217;s Rashid Khan (660 wickets), West Indies duo Dwayne Bravo (631) and Sunil Narine (590), and South Africa&#8217;s Imran Tahir (554) in achieving the landmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He only needed six balls to reach the record on Sunday, recording figures of 3-11 in a low-scoring affair at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Patriots set the Falcons 134 to win after their last six batters made just 22 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Falcons chased the total down with two balls to spare, with Karima Gore finishing unbeaten on 52 off 47 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shakib was also handy with the bat, making 25 (18) before being stumped by Pakistan&#8217;s Mohammad Rizwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win leaves the Falcons top of the table, having played a few more matches than those below them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/mens-caribbean-twenty20\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CPL table<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/mens-caribbean-twenty20\/scores-fixtures\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CPL fixtures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakib Al-Hasan became the fifth player to take 500 wickets in T20 cricket in Antigua &amp; Barbuda&#8217;s victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-91425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}