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Star India pacer Mohammed Shami marked his return to ICC tournaments with a superb 5/53, serving to India bowl out Bangladesh for 228.
‘Kind Of Folks You Need Round’: Ricky Ponting Lauds Mohammed Shami (Image credit score: AP)
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has mentioned that for Mohammed Shami to return again and get a five-wicket haul within the first match of the Champions Trophy is sensible, including that the Indian bowler is at his finest model for the time being.
Shami marked his return to ICC tournaments with a surprising 5/53, serving to India dismiss Bangladesh for 228 on Thursday. He turned the quickest Indian and the second-quickest general to achieve 200 ODI wickets throughout India’s six-wicket win.
Shami’s final look in an ICC match was within the 2023 ODI World Cup the place he completed as the best wicket-taker regardless of sustaining an ankle damage through the match.
“For him to return again and get 5 wickets within the first sport of the Champions Trophy is improbable. They’re precisely the kind of folks you need in your aspect, the blokes who would do something for you,” Ponting mentioned whereas talking on ICC.
“Particularly as a captain, you look somebody within the eye and ask them to do a job for you, if they’re going to do it or they don’t seem to be and Shami at all times appears that kind of man to me that,” Ponting mentioned.
After sustaining the ankle damage, Shami was sidelined from worldwide cricket for over a yr due to the damage, which interrupted a superb run in worldwide cricket and the comeback started with a return to home cricket.
“It hasn’t been straightforward for him, sure he had a superb worldwide profession however in case you look again, it was a kind of stop-start at first of his profession,” Ponting mentioned.
“He has acquired higher and higher yr on yr and he’s most likely, one of the best model of himself proper now on the again of a little bit of adversity, so they’re the kind of folks you need round, particularly in large tournaments,” Ponting added.
Shami, who has bagged 55 wickets throughout three ODI World Cups, in 2015, 2019 and 2023, turned the eighth Indian to achieve 200 wickets in ODIs.
India play Pakistan of their second group-stage sport on Sunday, February 23. Notably, Shami didn’t characteristic within the marquee conflict within the 2023 ODI World Cup and his final ODI in opposition to Pakistan was a decade again within the 2015 World Cup.