New Delhi: “How do you choose a good shot out of so many?” Commentator Harsha Bhogle said while batting legends Sunil Gavaskar and Shane Watson looked at Bangladeshi opener Liton Kumar Das as each member of India’s mighty pace attack and sent their deliveries packing around the Adelaide Oval on Wednesday.
Chasing 185 runs to help his team survive for the semi-finals in the ongoing Men’s T20 World Cup, Liton’s efforts were first halted by rain and then by a straight straight hit from KL Rahul. Reduced well from non. Striker’s crease.
By this time, Das had already scored the fastest fifty by a Bangladeshi player in T20 Internationals. He also set a perfect stage for Bangladesh’s historic victory over regional rivals India.
Bangladesh lost the match by 5 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, but Das reminded the cricket world of his batting abilities, as his game featured more than just his ability to hit the ball in the shortest format of cricket. there is too much.
Born on 13 October 1994 in a Bengali Hindu family dinajpurNear Bangladesh’s north-western border with India, Das made his first-class debut as a teenager, debuting for the Rangpur Division in 2011 and at the Bangladesh national level in the 2012 and 2014 Under-19 World Cups. Joined the K Under-19 squads.
Long known to be a wicketkeeping prospect and eventually taking the reins of the gloves from veteran Mushfiqur Rahim, Das made his international debut in June 2015. The occasion came on the back of a stellar domestic season as well as Bangladesh’s efforts to bring in a new generation. Number of cricketers since the conclusion of the relatively successful ODI World Cup cycle that year.
The difficulties and challenges of international cricket at first seemed beyond Das, as he Average Below 30 in Tests from 2015 to 2019 and struggled For most of that period of continuity in white ball cricket.
However, the journey of his prime years and the long hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic gave him the time and learning he needed to adapt his game to the highest level.
In the last two years, Das has delivered all kinds of terrific performances, and in all formats, average He ranged from 45 to 50 in Tests between 2021 and 2022, scored 500 runs in 10 One Day Internationals in 2022 and over 140 runs in T20 Internationals this year.
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‘Litton’s Test cricket improves’
Das’s rise, however, has come largely under the radar, given that Bangladesh have historically been the worst of nine World Test Championship sides, their only win in the 2021-23 cycle away from New Zealand in January.
Similarly, Bangladesh have been very good as a team, but not the best results-wise during the 2020–23 ODI Super League and have been described as a fundamentally flawed side for the ever-evolving modern era of T20 cricket. is seen as.
As such, the only person to break Das’s reform as a cricketer, particularly in red ball cricket, is UK-based Australian journalist and YouTuber Jarrod Kimber.
one in video essay title ‘Best Player Award 2020-22Kimber examined how Liton scored over 50 in more than half of his 13 Test matches and was among nine players to score more than 1,000 runs in this two-year span.
“For [Litton] Individually, he scored most of his career during this period, despite the fact that he played only 13 of his 33 Tests in this period. It cannot be denied that [Litton Das] He’s improved…he’s doubled his average,” Kimber explained.
These figures reflect Das’s match-winning knocks of 86 at Mount Manganui and 95 at Harare, both of which were against the running of the game.
“In our times, [Litton] There are only four scores in one point, which is a remarkable consecutive run… a man who really had no mark on the Test game prior to this period, having played a brilliant innings in Zimbabwe, but more importantly, Bangladesh’s. It was the backbone of the batting. , which was an incredible series result for him…It’s been a great 2 years for Liton Das, the best Test player of 2022,” Kimber concluded.
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