AFP, London

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has outshone Sachin Tendulkar, Andrew Flintoff and Jacques
Kallis to be named as The Wisden Cricketer magazine’s Test Player of the Year for 2009.
Shakib comfortably topped a performance table compiled by the magazine’s correspondents at Tests played between September
2008 and the end of August 2009.
In the eight Tests Shakib played in that period, he took 45 wickets at 23 with his left-arm spin, including five five-wicket
hauls, and scored 498 runs at an average of 35.57. [Read more]