Tamim Iqbal

Full name: Tamim Iqbal Khan

Born March 20, 1989, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Height: 1.75 M

Playing a role: Opening batsman

Batting style: Left-hand bat

Spouse: Ayesha Siddiqa

Parents: Iqbal Khan, Nusrat Iqbal

Relation cricketer:  Uncle - Akram Khan, Brother - Nafees Iqbal

Major teams: Bangladesh, Bangladesh A, Asia XI, Bangladesh Under-19s, 

Duronto Rajshahi, Chittagong Division, ICC World XI, Nottinghamshire, Pune Warriors, Peshawar Zalmi, St Lucia Zouks, Wellington, World-XI

Batting Career Details 

                                                                              

	M	In	No	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	200	50	4s	6s
Test	58	112	1	4327	206	38.98	7648	56.58	9	1	27	539	35
ODI	189	187	8	6460	154	36.09	8290	77.93	11	0	44	705	82
T20	75	75	5	1613	103	23.04	1380	116.88	1	0	6	175	41

   

Bowling Career Details

                                                                        

	M	In	B	Runs	WK	BBI	BBM	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Test	58	5	30	20	0	0/1	0/1	4.0	0.0	0.0	0	0
ODI	189	2	6	13	0	0/6	0/6	13.0	0.0	0.0	0	0
T20	75	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career Information

Test debut: Bangladesh vs New Zealand at University Oval, Jan 04, 2008

Last Test: Bangladesh vs New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Mar 08, 2019 

ODI debut: Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club, Feb 09, 2007 

Last ODI: Bangladesh vs New Zealand at University Oval, Feb 20, 2019 

T20 debut: Bangladesh vs Kenya at Gymkhana Club Ground, Sep 01, 2007

Last T20: Bangladesh vs Windies at Shere Bangla National Stadium,2018

Profile

Profile When the world discussions about the sub-mainland openers, they talk about the hostility factor. Virender Sehwag, Sanath Jayasuriya, and Sachin Tendulkar have heartlessly decimated the blowing away the years. In any case, an opener from Bangladesh before long joined that rundown and made the world pay heed. 

Tamim Iqbal was picked in the Bangladesh group for the 2007 World Cup subsequent to playing only two matches against Zimbabwe. Against India, they were pursuing a low score in dubious conditions. With the accomplished Zaheer Khan bowling, it would have seemed well and good for somebody unpracticed to demonstrate regard and play him with an alert. Tamim slighted those variables and propelled into the Indian bowling with ruthless hostility. His six over profound mid wicket subsequent to avoiding down the track to Zaheer was among the shots of the 2007 World Cup and as far back as that thump, he hasn't thought back. 

He scored his first century against Ireland, however, it was his thump against Zimbabwe at Harare which got him top charging. Charles Coventry stayed unbeaten when he broke even with Saeed Anwar's most noteworthy ODI score of 194. Be that as it may, Tamim propelled a fierce counterattack to crush the most elevated score by a Bangladeshi batsman. His 154 included seven fours and six sixes as Bangladesh proceeded to win the match. 

He has been somewhat conflicting in ODIs, yet his Test structure has been astounding. He began off his Test debut in style by scoring a couple of the fifties against New Zealand in Dunedin in 2008. He scored his lady Test century against the West Indies in 2009 at Kingstown to enable Bangladesh to record their first abroad test win. He crushed 151 against India at Dhaka, however, it was the England bowling that he savored the most. In six Test innings against them, he has five scores of more than fifty. His noteworthy minute went ahead of the visit to England when he got his name on the distinctions board at Lord's by turning into the primary Bangladeshi player to score a century. He scored another ton at Old Trafford to top off a superb summer. His exhibitions in that visit prompted Wisden naming him as the Cricketer of the year in 2011. He is as of now the second Bangladeshi to play for an English area when he joined Nottinghamshire. 

The nephew of previous Bangladesh captain Akram Khan, Tamim has demonstrated that he can possibly accomplish enormity. He was picked by Nottinghamshire as a momentary swap for David Hussey as he was called up for the National obligation. Tamim was not all that fruitful with the bat and he scored only 104 keeps running with a most noteworthy score of 47. He was under colossal weight from the Bangladeshi media particularly when he played against Worcestershire, who were handling Shakib Al Hasan. 

Bangladesh visited Zimbabwe in July 2011 for a solitary Test and five ODIs. Zimbabwe was coming back from a six-year oust from Tests, in spite of the fact that Bangladesh had not played in the organization for over 14 months. Notwithstanding guaranteeing in a press certainty that Zimbabwe's bowlers presented little danger, Tamim oversaw only 58 keeps running in the Test as Bangladesh slid to overcome. Bangladesh likewise lost the ODI arrangement against Zimbabwe 3– 2. All Bangladeshi batsmen battled right off the bat in the arrangement, with Tamim overseeing only 157 keeps running from five innings at a normal of 31.40. In the fallout of the arrangement, Shakib and Tamim were sacked as commander and bad habit chief, with a BCB delegate referring to their poor initiative. 

At the point when West Indies visited Bangladesh in October 2011, he was the main run-scorer for Bangladesh and he scored 186 keeps running from 4 innings including 2 fifties. At the point when the BCB established the Bangladesh Premier League, he was made the 'Symbol Player' for Chittagong Kings. His appearance was constrained to only 2 coordinates as he endured crotch damage and scored only 8 runs. In March 2012 Bangladesh facilitated the Asia Cup. Tamim, who was recouping from typhoid, was at first dropped from the squad on the requests of BCB president Mustafa Kamal. Contention followed as Kamal had superseded determination board of trustees and Tamim was in the end re-added to the squad. He reacted by striking four sequential half-hundreds of years, turning into the main Bangladesh player to accomplish the accomplishment in ODIs. Bangladesh advanced to the last against desires, however, lost to Pakistan by 2 runs. Soon thereafter, Tamim marked with Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League, however, did not play a solitary counterpart for the group. In April his top-level focal contract with the BCB was recharged. 

In late October, Wellington Firebirds marked him for the New Zealand local HRV Cup, a T20 rivalry. Tamim is the main Bangladeshi to play in the New Zealand residential alliance. Bangladesh facilitated West Indies in late 2012, where Bangladesh won the ODI arrangement, regardless of losing the Test arrangement and the T20I. Tamim scored the fifties in both ODIs and Tests and his unbeaten thump of 88 went futile as Bangladesh lost the solitary T20I. After the arrangement, Tamim returned to New Zealand to play for Wellington Firebirds, where he scored 232 runs, incorporating two half-hundreds of years with a normal of 38.66. He returned to Bangladesh in mid-January to lead Duronto Rajshahi in the second version of the BPL. 

In March 2013, Bangladesh went to Sri Lanka, however, Tamim was not chosen for the primary Test. Be that as it may, in the second Test he made 10 and 59 individually. In the first ODI, Tamim turned into the main Bangladeshi to score a hundred against Sri Lanka, when he scored 112 off 136 balls. At the point when Sri Lanka visited Bangladesh in February 2014, he had a tranquil arrangement and didn't play in the ODIs because of a neck sprain. Tamim returned into the squad for 2014 Asia Cup and World T20 however neglected to score the runs which his group required. In July 2014, he was a piece of the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration coordinate at Lord's. 

After a not too bad arrangement against Zimbabwe in Nov-Dec 2014, Tamim was analyzed as an evaluation one tear to his left side knee. He experienced a medical procedure in Australia and recouped in time before the 2015 World Cup. In any case, he didn't have an extraordinary competition as he oversaw only 154 keeps running in six innings, with the best score of 95 against Scotland which gave the stage to pursue down an objective of 319. 

He slipped back firmly against a meeting Pakistan group after the 2015 World Cup. With scores of 132, 116 and 64 in the three-match ODI arrangement, he was the Man of the Series and assumed an instrumental job in whitewashing Pakistan out of the blue. He proceeded with his great work in the Tests as well, indenting up a twofold century in Khulna in the second innings which helped Bangladesh secure a draw out of the blue against Pakistan in Tests. He was additionally a key individual from the Bangladesh set-up that tasted arrangement triumphs against India and South Africa around the same time. Against Zimbabwe, he scored 132 keeps running in three amusements, in this way winning all the four two-sided ODI arrangement at home in 2015. 

Tamim quit the 2016 Asia Cup because of the introduction of his first kid. Notwithstanding, he was back for ICC WT20, 2016 held in India. Bangladesh needed to play the qualifiers, where the opener was at his pinnacle. He scored an unbeaten 83 Netherlands in his group's first match of the competition. In an unquestionable requirement win experience against Oman, he struck 103 off only 63 conveyances and turned into the main Bangladeshi to score a T20I century - in this way turning into the first from his country to score a very long time overall arrangements. He couldn't clutch a similar structure in the Super-10 organize where Bangladesh couldn't win a solitary diversion.

His 80 and 118 in the first and third ODIs individually guaranteed a 2-1 arrangement triumph against Afghanistan. Tamim turned into the main Bangladeshi batsman to achieve 5000 ODI runs when he achieved the achievement against England in October 2016. Conveying the great structure into the longest organization, Tamim hammered his eight Test ton at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium and upheld it up with a red hot 40 in the second paper that helped Bangladesh post their first since forever Test win against England and in this way drawing the 2-coordinate arrangement 1-1. 

Notwithstanding his fifty in the principal innings of the main Test against New Zealand, Tamim didn't contribute considerably from the get-go in the year 2017. Notwithstanding, he recovered his touch in Sri Lanka, where he scored 207 keeps running in two matches. He got the Man of the Match in Bangladesh's 100th Test coordinate for his developed 82 in the second innings that saw Bangladesh pursue down an objective of 191. He proceeded with his great structure by scoring up his eighth ton in the 50-over configuration that overwhelmed Sri Lanka in the first ODI. 

Tamim kept on stirring in keeps running in the tri-arrangement highlighting Ireland and New Zealand where he amassed 199 keeps running at a normal around 66. He set the Champions Trophy in England on fire with a glimmering 128 in the competition opener and lined it up with scores of 95 0 and 70. In spite of the fact that Bangladesh lost to India in the quarter-finals, they outperformed desires for some by thumping both Antipodean countries out of the competition. 

2016 - 2017 - a season that saw Bangladesh ascend in Test cricket. Test wins against Sri Lanka, England, and Australia. Those wouldn't have been conceivable sans the amazingness of senior players. What's more, above all Tamim Iqbal, the fundamental machine gear-piece of Bangladesh's batting for over 10 years.