{"id":30641,"date":"2025-12-08T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30641"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:02:51","slug":"shakib-wants-home-farewell-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30641","title":{"rendered":"Shakib wants home farewell series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan wants to return home to play a match in all three formats before ending his international career, the 38-year-old said.<br \/>\nConsidered the greatest cricketer ever produced by Bangladesh, Shakib left the country after the toppling of the Sheikh Hasina-led government last year.<br \/>\nThe all-rounder had been a member of parliament for the Awami League led by Hasina, whose 15-year rule as prime minister ended with her fleeing to India following deadly protests.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am officially not retired from all formats,&#8221; Shakib said on the Beard Before Wicket podcast on Sunday.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;ll be revealing that. My plan is to go back to Bangladesh, play one full series of ODI, test, and T20, and retire.<br \/>\n&#8220;I mean, (I can) retire from all formats in a series &#8230; I want to play a whole series and retire. That&#8217;s what I want.&#8221;<br \/>\nShakib has not played international cricket since his 71st test in India last year, after which he announced his retirement from T20 Internationals.<br \/>\nHe then requested to play a farewell test at home in the series against South Africa but the interim government was unable to guarantee his safety due to his political past.<br \/>\nThe all-rounder said been playing franchise cricket around the world in the hopes he will be able to play for Bangladesh again.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am hopeful. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m playing (T20 leagues). I think it will happen,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nShakib has not played for Bangladesh since October 2024, when he featured in the second Test against India in Kanpur.<br \/>\nHis long absence has been tied to political unrest in Bangladesh, where the Awami League, the party he represented as an MP, was ousted from power in August.<br \/>\nAfter the regime change, Shakib remained outside the country while continuing to feature in away Tests in Pakistan and India.<br \/>\nShakib Al Hasan had previously announced a step back from T20Is and said he wished to play his final Test during the home series against South Africa last October.<br \/>\nHowever, protests around the Shere Bangla National Stadium and security concerns led the BCB, under the interim government, to omit him from the squad.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan wants to return home to play a match in all three formats before ending his international career, the 38-year-old said. Considered the greatest cricketer ever produced by Bangladesh, Shakib left the country after the toppling of the Sheikh Hasina-led government last year. The all-rounder had been a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}