ICC World Cup 2019: Unsung hero from each team in the tournament

3. Mushfiqur Rahim | Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan played a different level of cricket in the World Cup 2019. The all-rounder was unstoppable with the bat and has scored in excess of 600 runs. While he deserves all the praise for his efforts, Mushfiqur Rahim has also done a really good job batting at number four.

Even though he wasn’t as consistent as Shakib, Mushfiqur played some really important knocks and put his class on display. He is amongst the leading run-scorers in the tournament and his average was over 52. Mushfiqur scored 367 runs at a strike rate of 93 and even hit a couple of half-centuries and a century. However, Bangladesh might have been in a much better position had he performed at a more consistent basis.

4. Rassie van der Dussen | South Africa

South Africa experimented quite a bit with the batting order in the tournament. While playing a tournament of this magnitude, they were expected to have certain plans in place and give their best players an opportunity to express themselves. This uncertainty about the batting order affected Rassie van der Dussen up to a certain extent.

Dussen is usually at his best when he gets to bat at number three or four. But due to the combinations they went ahead with, he was slotted down to number five. It isn’t easy for any batsman to excel at a different position than what he is used to. Yet, he took up the challenge and played some really good cricket. He batted in 6 innings and scored 311 runs at an average of over 62 and a strike rate of 90.