Shakib Al Hasan’s ninth ODI ton helped Bangladesh complete the second highest successful run chase in World Cup history against the West Indies in Taunton on Monday.
Needing 322 to claim their second win of the tournament, Bangladesh finished the chase in 41.3 overs with seven wickets in hand. Hasan, unbeaten 124 off 99 balls, scored a second succ♔essive ton and was match🐭ed almost shot-for-shot by Liton Das, who remained not-out at the other end on 94 off 69 deliveries.
The duo added an unbeaten 18🍃9 run-🅷stand for the fourth wicket.
Earlier, after put in bat, Windies inform batsman Shai Hope hit 96 off 121 balls and the joint-fastest fifty of th🦩e tournament from Shimron Hetmyer inspired the Men in Maroon to post a total of 321-8.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Beaten South A൩frica,Now again Wonderful chase by against the windies. It꧒ was pure brilliance by to win the game for them
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Congrats wit🥀h a tremendous chase 👏😎 Well done & Liton Das 👊🏻 for the Shak! 😬👍🔥
— Danny Morrison (@SteelyDan66)
Shakib should take over as Universe Boss
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
Hands up if you're the leading run-scorer at 👆
— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup)
What a fabulous innings by Shakib Al Hasan. Playing every match with utmost desire to win! are surely blessed to have him in this kind of forꦕm!
— Venkat Parthasarathy 🇮🇳 (@Venkrek)
Bangladesh's chase:
– 2nd highest in World Cup history
– their highest ever in ODIs
– first 250+ chase of this World Cup
– 4th quickest 300+ chase (41.3 overs) in ODIs— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
For a moment I thoug🌱ht Liton will go for 6 sixes but nevertheless a historical win for all hail t🌠op man💯🏏
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Bangladeshhhh 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
— Danielle Wyatt (@Danni_Wyatt)
Khuuuuuuuubbbb bhalo 🔥⭐️ 100
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Shakib On the prowl… showing not only that he is the Worlds No1 allrounder but making a statement that he is a World class batsman too. Congratulations Wonderfull knock 👏👏
— Russel Arnold (@RusselArnold69)
Bangladesh's highest ever successful run chase in all ODIs.
– 322/3 beat WI (Taunton) today (target 322)
– 322/4 beat Sco (Nelson) (target 319)
Both the above efforts are the highest🐲 successful run chases in by an Asian sid꧙e!— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
Congratulations Bangladesh!
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
What a fabulous innings by Shakib Al Hasan. Playing every match with utmost desire to win! are surely bless💮ed to have him in th💛is kind of form!
— Venkat Parthasarathy 🇮🇳 (@Venkrek)
//twitter.com/KP24/status/1140669934017503233
Great chase by Bangladesh, shows that their game again꧃st the Proteas was not a once of..
— Albie Morkel (@albiemorkel)
W꧃hy has Liton Das 💫not played in this until now???
— Isa Guha (@isaguha)
𝔉This is one of the most powerful batting performances I have seen from Bangladesh. And I havไe been watching them for a while.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)