Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 17: Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladesh ODI captain, announced his retirement from T20Is on Sunday shortly after his team’s 3-0 victory over the West Indies in the three-match ODI series. The announcement was posted on the left-handed batter’s official Facebook page.
Tamim posted the message, it reads: “consider me retired from T20 internationals from today. Thanks everyone.”
The southpaw’s most recent T20I match was against Zimbabwe at home in March 2020. Due to an injury and other factors, he has since avoided the format. Additionally, the left-hander withdrew from Bangladesh’s participation in the T20 World Cup in Oman and the UAE in 2021.
The Chatrogram-born player played in 78 T20Is and amassed 1758 runs with an average of 24.08 and a strike rate of 116.96, as well as a century and seven half-centuries.
Tamim is the only Bangladeshi batsman to have scored a century in a Twenty20 international match, which he did against Oman in the 2016 T20 World Cup in India.
After the current captain Mahmudullah Riyad and the test captain Shakib Al Hasan, he finished as the third-highest run-scorer for his nation in T20Is.
At the age of 18, Tamim made his T20I debut back in September 2017. He didn’t look back after that and became the focal point of the national squad in all three formats, not just T20Is.
Tamim will still represent his nation in ODIs and Test matches, though. Additionally, he needs 57 more runs to become the first player from his nation to reach 8000 runs in ODIs. He has scored more than 14000 runs with the Tigers overall, including 25 centuries and 91 half centuries.
