At Edgbaston in Birmingham, during the group stage of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal observes the ball after playing a shot against India. The match was being played between Bangladesh and India.
Tamim Iqbal, the captain of the Bangladesh men’s one-day international team, stated that the just finished three-match ODI series could maybe his last in the English soil because there will be no series against England in the next Future Tour Programme (FTP).
After taking the first two games of the series by a score of 2-0 and then beating Ireland by a score of five runs in the third game on Sunday, Bangladesh won the series.
The Tigers were able to defend their score of 274 runs because to the outstanding bowling of Mustafizur Rahman and the youthful Hasan Mahmud, who only allowed nine runs in the last over of the match.
“The support from the audience here has always been exceptional. Because we don’t play a lot of matches against English teams on our tours, I’m not sure whether I will ever play in England again, particularly in international cricket. “And we don’t have schedule in the next three to four years, so probably this was my last game in England and I really enjoyed it,” Tamim said to the media at the after match news conference on Sunday. “It was a great experience.”
The left-handed batsman, who had been having trouble scoring huge runs in recent games, was finally able to get a fifty in the seventh game of the one-day international series, when his 82-ball, 69-run performance assisted Bangladesh in reaching 274 after they were sent in to bat.
Tamim has a strong track record in England, where the left-handed batsman has scored 680 runs in 18 one-day internationals at an average of 37.77, with four fifty-plus scores and one hundred. In the longest format of the game, which was played in England, he had hit two hundreds there. Tamim’s legendary hundred at Lord’s in 2010 is still acknowledged as one of the best innings ever played in England by a Bangladeshi. He had scored two hundreds in England.