Vijay Hazare Trophy: Shahbaz Nadeem Bags List A Best Bowling Figures Record

Left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem bagged the remarkable record to break the List-A record for best bowling figures with an incredible eight for ten against Rajasthan in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy.

However, Nadeem destroyed Rahul Sanghvi’s eight for 15 for Delhi against Himachal Pradesh which came in the 1997-98 season.

Keith Boyce (8 for 26) was the first to take an eight-wicket haul in 1971. It was a record created in the early days of limited-overs cricket.

Moreover, Derek Underwood (8 for 31) became the second, in the year 1987. Boyce’s record has been broken in the very next year by Michael Holding (8 for 21).

But Nadeem, who has been on the fringes of selection to the Indian national team for years and has been a regular for the ‘A’ side, matched Sanghvi – and ten others – on the number of wickets, but gave away five runs fewer than Sanghvi’s 15.

The record in ODI cricket remains Chaminda Vaas’ eight for 19, which he got against Zimbabwe in Colombo on 8 December 2001.

Nadeem took 51 wickets in the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy. He became the sixth bowler to claim fifty or more wickets in a Ranji season. His sensational performance during that prosperous season came against Kerala when he picked up seven for 64 to register Jharkhand’s big win in Malappuram.

Furthermore, at one point in the game against Rajasthan, it looked like Nadeem will pick up all ten wickets. By the end of his eighth over, he had all the eight wickets to have fallen at that stage.

However, Anukul Roy, left-arm spinner picked up the wicket of Rahul Chahar, Anukul break Nadeem’s monopoly on the scoresheet.

Meanwhile, while chasing down the target, Jharkhand beat Rajasthan by seven wickets. They end up the match within the 15th over. During the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Shahbaz Nadeem his commendable effort.