Sports Reporter :
Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has tried to return to form. The practice session of Fortune Barishal was scheduled to start at 10.30am at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Thursday. But Shakib Al Hasan arrived at the stadium at 9.30am. Then he started his batting practice. He tried to return to his form to bat one and half an hour alone.
Shakib Al Hasan bowled well in his recently concluded three matches of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Cricket. Shakib failed to show a satisfactory performance in bowling for Fortune Barishal.
Coach Khaled Mahmud Sujon worked with the batters of Fortune Barishal at the stadium of Chattogram.
Shakib Al Hasan scored 13, 23 and one in his last three matches respectively. So, Shakib tried to come out from his off-form. He started his batting practice with thrower Ramzan Ali and Assistant Coach Ashiqur Rahman. The left-arm batter failed to connect the ball most of the deliveries in first 30 minutes. Some of the deliveries hit his helmet during his practice session. But Shakib maintained his batting practice and after one hour he regularly connected the ball and made some wonderful drives.
After forty minutes, Shakib went to rest a while. When he returned to batting practice, the other batters of Fortune Barishal started their batting practice. Shakib hit some deliveries over the midwicket, long-on, long-off. Shakib did only batting practice yesterday. He did not bowl or took part in the fielding practice on that day. Al the members of Fortune Barishal engaged them in batting practice.
Usually Shakib took part in practice session in three departments (batting, bowling, fielding). But yesterday he showed eagerness to shine with the willow in rest of the matches of BPL Cricket.
