Meet Ahmed Shahzad, the latest batting sensation from Pakistan

New Delhi: The T20 league match between Pakistan and Bangladesh will go on to the record book with an unique record. Ahmed Shahzad, the right handed opener batsman has made a unique triple. The twenty two year old batsman became the first batsman from Pakistan to score a century in all the three formats of the game. Let's take a look on the young right handed batting prodigy from Pakistan. Ahmed Shahzad who was under a bit of pressure before the match against Bangladesh because of lack of runs returned to his form with a scintillating T20 hundred. Pakistan who went into the match with a lot of pressure to defeat Bangladesh to keep their hopes alive of reaching the semis received a major boost at the top from Ahmed Shahzad. The opener had played a 62 ball 111 runs not out innings. The Pakistani batsman was going through a rough patch and he needed to perform . He chose the match against Bangladesh. In his innings he had hit a total of 10 boundaries and five sixes to take the team total to 190 runs. His brilliant innings earned him the Man of the Match Award and also helped to beat the opposition by a huge margin. He is relatively new to the game having played only three test matches till date and scoring a best of 147 runs and having a average of 45.He made his test debut against Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi in the year 2013. He scored the highest runs in the third test against Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi. Till date he has played 45 One Day Internationals in which he had hit five centuries with the highest score being 124 runs. He recently have an average of around 34 which is surely going to improve . Shahzad has played a total of 25 matches T20 matches in which he has scored a total of 666 runs at a strike rate of 122.65.Apart from the century he has hit three fifties also in the shortest format of the game . He aims to be an aggressive batsman like the great Aussie Ricky Ponting. The cricket pundits have already started to say that he has the style and calmness of batting sensation from India , Virat Kohli.