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Bangladeshi cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan won a seat in the nation’s parliament Sunday after a landslide success in a basic election boycotted by the opposition, an authorities stated. The 36-year all-rounder, who leads the nation in all formats of the video game, beat his competitor by a margin of more than 150,000 votes in his constituency in the western town of Magura, the district’s chief administrator Abu Naser Beg stated. “It was a landslide success,” he stated. There is no instant remark from the cricketer, a prospect of the judgment Awami League celebration of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is herself commonly anticipated to win a 5th term in power after the primary opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) boycotted the vote.
Shakib, speaking ahead of the election, yielded he was not dealing with any major barrier however informed AFP the contest still made him nervous.
“The competitors and obstacles are constantly there, be it a little group or huge group,” he stated.
Shakib’s project required him to take a short-lived leave of lack from cricket.
He has actually bristled at the idea he would not have the ability to stabilize his tasks as a legislator and a cricket captain.
“Did I retire?” he asked throughout marketing. “If I have not retired, then where does this concern originated from?”
Shakib is the only individual to have actually been ranked the number-one all-rounder in all 3 formats at the same time by the International Cricket Council.
He was a teen when he was hired to the nation’s leading sports academy and simply 19 at his global launching in 2006 as a batting all-rounder.
By the list below year, he was currently a star when he struck a fifty in a David-and-Goliath program versus India on the planet Cup– a success still mentioned reverentially by Bangladeshi fans.
He has actually likewise gathered a credibility for ill-discipline, with a defiant streak that as soon as saw him threaten a viewer with a bat, which made him a three-match restriction after making a salacious gesture to a tv team.
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