http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-worl...ry/582276.html
World Twenty20 2012
Shakib enjoying new top-order role
ESPNcricinfo staff
September 14, 2012
|
For Bangladesh, plenty depends on Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan © AFP
| Enlarge
|
|
|
Shakib Al Hasan and
Tamim Iqbal have long been mainstays of Bangladesh's batting, but Tamim has usually been in charge of providing the momentum at the top with Shakib finishing things from No. 5.
In the T20s, though, with Shakib having been bumped up to No. 3, the pair will be in charge of providing a good start. While the move potentially gives two of Bangladesh's best batsmen more time in the middle, the team will have plenty to worry about if they are both dismissed early. That, though, has happened only once in seven matches in the last three months -
against Ireland.
Shakib has so far batted at his
new position in six T20Is and once during the unofficial matches in Port-of-Spain, and said on Friday that he's comfortable in the new role. "If I bat in the top order, I will get more chances to score runs and more chances to face balls. I am looking forward to batting at No. 3," he said in Colombo.