Abu Choudhury: Shakib has lost his humility

Abu Choudhury, writing for BanglaCricket.com, examines Shakib Al Hasan's fall from grace. There is not much you could fault the former Bangladesh captain with for his on-field performances, says Choudhury, but off it he was asking for trouble.

There will be those who condemn this as a grotesque overreaction by the BCB to a lacklustre tour. Such a conclusion, however, is misleading and ignores a pattern of poor behaviour by both the captain and his deputy. Shakib’s fall from grace is in fact the culmination of a series of acts by the Bangladesh skipper which could at best be described as naïve and at worst considered wilfully arrogant.