Shakib leaves Bangladesh amid boos to join Tigers WC camp

After completing his practice session with his childhood mentor Najmul Abedin Fahim, ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan left the country on Thursday to join the Bangladesh team in Kolkata, report agencies.
The Tigers will face off Netherlands in their sixth match of the ICC Cricket World Cup at Kolkata's Eden Gardens on Saturday.
The reason of his hurried tour in Dhaka is believed to fix some technical glitches as he was going through a bad patch in the World Cup.
He got a harsh welcome with fans booing him and chanting bhoa-bhoa-bhoa (fake) when he left the BCB academy premises on Thursday following a net session with Nazmul Abedin, who has been working with him since his childhood days at BKSP - the country's lone sports institute situated in Savar. Following his poor form with the bat, which has impacted his team's fortunes in the ongoing World Cup, the left-handed batter decided to leave Mumbai for two days of extensive training with his mentor.
Shakib, who had hit peak form with the bat during the 2019 World Cup, scoring 606 runs which included two tons and five half-centuries, has not reach the three-figure mark since that tournament. Since then, he has earned an ICC ban for failing to report corrupt approaches coupled with a drop in batting form in this format. Since returning from the ban in 2021, Shakib has played 38 matches and scored 1117 runs at an average of 33.84, which includes eight fifties. In the ongoing tournament, he has registered scores of 14, 1, 40 and 1. He had, so far, taken six wickets at an economy rate of 5.54.
While against New Zealand he looked scratchy for most of his innings what worked for him was the fact that he took a different approach altogether, playing second fiddle to Mushfiqur Rahim, who was playing his shots to keep the scoreboard ticking. The pair gave much-needed stability to the Bangladesh innings before the ace all-rounder departed after falling to the short ball ploy of Lockie Ferguson.
The last six deliveries that Shakib played against New Zealand included two sixes and a four as he decided to go all out and paid the price for it and it was the same case against Afghanistan, where he scored 14 runs before going for a full-blooded pull shot against Azmatullah Omarzai that went straight into the hand of Fazalhaq Farooqui at deep square.