By Ben Gardner

At the 2019 World Cup, Shakib Al Hasan was many people’s pick as the unofficial Player of the Tournament. He passed fifty in seven out of eight innings, twice going on to a century, and became the first cricketer to score 500 runs and take 10 wickets in a single top-level ODI tournament.
By October that year, he was leading a players’ strike over pay and the make-up of Bangladesh’s domestic system. A few days later, he was banned for 12 months for a series of anti-corruption breaches.
For most players, that would be a career-defining few months. Shakib calls it Wednesda...