Shabbir Khan’s hat-trick (Photo: Instagram)
Shabbir Khan: Bihar’s fast bowler Shabbir Khan has given the best performance of his career in the plate group final of Vijay Hazare Trophy. With his lethal bowling in the final, he derailed Manipur’s batting even before it could gain momentum. The 28 year old Bihar bowler not only took a hat-trick in the final against Manipur but also took 4 wickets for one run. Shabbir Khan broke Manipur’s morale with his fiery bowling in his first spell of 5 overs.
Shabbir Khan created a sensation
Manipur team came out to bat first in the final match of the plate group of Vijay Hazare Trophy being played in Ranchi. But, the openers together had just added 5 runs to the score board when Shabbir Khan gave the first blow. Shabbir Khan clean bowled Manipur’s opener Karanjeet on the fourth ball of the first over of the match.
4 wickets in 1 over with a hat-trick
But, the real orgy of Shabbir Khan’s havoc with the ball was seen in the 5th over of Manipur’s innings. From the second ball of this over, he looked like a threat to Manipur’s batsmen. The result was that he took 4 wickets of Manipur in that over with a hat-trick.
Shabbir Khan dismissed all these batsmen
Shabbir Khan completed his hat-trick by taking 3 consecutive wickets on the second, third and fourth balls of the 5th over of Manipur’s innings. After this he did not get any wicket on the 5th ball. But on the last ball of the over he gave another blow to Manipur. In this way he took 4 wickets in the over. The hat-trick taken by Shabbir Khan included the wickets of Langlonyamba, Santosh and Johnson. These three batsmen were the backbone of Manipur’s top order.
After taking the hat-trick, Shabbir Khan dismissed Priyojeet on the last ball and took his fourth victim in the over and fifth overall. Manipur got all these four blows on one run. All four of his wickets fell on the score of 19 runs. After this, Shabbir came in his next over and dismissed Jameson also. This was his shocking sixth wicket.
Best performance of career
28 year old fast bowler Shabbir Khan from Bihar has taken all 6 wickets in his first spell of 5 overs. He took 6 wickets for 17 runs in 5 overs in the first spell. During this period he also had one over maiden. This is the best performance of Shabbir Khan’s List A career.