Shahbaz Nadeem is an underrated spinner, who despite consistent performances, couldn’t do enough to get himself to the reckoning of national selectors. On Thursday the Jharkhand spinner broke a two-decade-old world record for best bowling figures in List A cricket, He picked up 8 wickets for 10 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here. Nadeem’s final figures read 10-4-10-8.
Left-arm orthodox spinner, Nadeem, ran through the Rajasthan batting to end a sensational spell. His career-best performance meant that Rajasthan was all out for 73 runs in 28.3 overs. Interestingly, the previous best has also been from a left-arm spinner Rahul Sanghvi, who achieved figures of 8/15 against Himachal Pradesh in a 1997-98 match. Sanghvi played a lone test match for India in 2001 against Australia.
Nadeem has so far played 99 First-Class matches, taking 375 wickets at 29.74. He has taken 124 wickets at the List A level in 87 games besides 89 scalps in 109 T20s.
Nadeem recently played for India A team which was played in England and also featured in the home series against Australia A. A left-arm spinner who relies on the flight, Shahbaz Nadeem took 51 wickets in the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy, becoming the sixth bowler to claim fifty or more wickets in a Ranji season. His highlight performance during that rich season came against Kerala when he picked up 7 for 64 to stud Jharkhand’s big win in Malappuram.
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