Internet Desk: Chris Gayle is known as one of the most destructive batsmen in the world of cricket. The West Indies star has smashed even the best of bowlers all around the park during his career. Sabbir Rahman of Bangladesh, on Sunday, played an innings that completely blew Gayle and his Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) record away.Till Sunday, Gayle held the record for the highest individual score for a batsman (112) in BPL. Sabbir however, played an innings that completely eclipsed Gayle’s record, as he went on to score 122 runs from 61 balls, in a match between Barisal Bulls and Rajshahi Kings, at the Shere Bangla stadium, in Mirpur, Bangladesh.
The 24-year-old hit nine sixes and as many fours, on his way to the record-breaking score.However, Sabir’s efforts went in vain, as Rajshahi failed to chase down the target of 193 set by Barisal, in a high-scoring match. He is from Rajshahi and besides national team he also plays for Rajshahi Division. Sabbir is a right-handed batsman and legbreak bowler. Sabbir Rahman was also captain of the Bangladesh Under 19’s team. Known as one of the clean strikers for the ball in Bangladesh team, Sabbir has influenced many recent wins against giant cricket teams – South Africa, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
He made his One Day International debut for Bangladesh against Zimbabwe on 21 November 2014. Sabbir was the top run scorer for Bangladesh in 2016 Asia Cup, where they beat UAE, Sri Lanka and Pakistan to go in to the final with India. They lost to India in a group match and in the final. Sabbir was outstanding with the batting as he scored 174 runs with an average of 44.00 and strike rate of 123.94, and played a major part of Bangladeshi batting unit and was selected as ‘Player of the series’. He scored a fifty in the match against Sri Lanka, where it was the first time that Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in a T20I.
On 20 October 2016, Sabbir made his Test debut against England. Sabbir Rahman reached the close of the fourth day unbeaten on 59 with a chance to steer Bangladesh to their most famous Test victory.