Ikram, you beauty!

Afghanistan’s budding player Ikram Ali Khil made history when he broke an age-old record set by the God of Cricket- Sachin Tendulkar himself!

In Afghanistan’s match against Bangladesh yesterday, the young wicket-keeper batsman Ikram Ali raised everyone’s eyebrows by scoring a scintillating knock of 86 against a quality spin attack of Bangladesh. By scoring these runs, at the age of 18 years and 278 days, he became the youngest player to record a score above 80 runs ever in the World cup history.

Ikram Ali, who was not the part of original Afghanistan’s playing squad was called into the team, as Afghanistan’s premier keeper Shahzad suffered injury recently. Ikram claims that he idolizes SriLanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and emulates his tendency to frequently rotate the strike.

Ikram in his own words, “I’m very proud to have broken the record of a legend like Tendulkar. It makes me very happy.” Incidentally, this knock is also the best score so far in Ikram’s cricketing career.

Despite the heroics of individual players like Rashid, Ikram, Nabi and Mujeeb, the Afghanistan team is yet to peak as a team and let us hope that it happens soon and Ikram will have a successful cricketing career for the nation.