Tamim Iqbal has introduced his retirement from T20Is shortly after main the ODI aspect to a 3-0 sequence win over West Indies in Guyana. Bangladesh gained the match by 4 wickets, with Tamim successful the player-of-the-series award. At round 6pm native time, he wrote a brief message on his official Facebook web page, posting in Bangla saying, “consider me retired from T20 internationals from today. Thanks everyone.”
It ends speculations over the past a number of weeks about his choice to proceed enjoying the format he had taken a break from in January this yr. He stated on the time that he’s going to take a break of six months from T20Is.
“My full focus will be on Tests and ODIs,” Tamim stated on January 27 this yr. “We are preparing for the World Test Championship and qualification for the 2023 World Cup. I will not be thinking about T20Is in the next six months. I hope that those playing will do so well, that the team won’t need me in T20Is. But if God forbid the team or cricket board needs me, and I am ready, I will possibly think about it.”
Tamim had stored himself away from this format for the reason that center of final yr when he made the stunning choice to voluntarily pull out of competition from the T20 World Cup within the UAE. Tamim stepped away to offer Soumya Sarkar and Mohammad Naim an prolonged run as openers, though each failed and had been later dropped from the T20I aspect.
Tamim final performed a T20I in March 2020 when he made 41 off 33 balls towards Zimbabwe. He was criticised in some quarters within the T20I sequence earlier than that, in Pakistan, when he made 65 off 53 balls.
Instead, Tamim has flourished within the different codecs, main Bangladesh to five consecutive ODI series wins together with the one towards West Indies that concluded on Saturday.
Tamim was an everyday within the Bangladesh T20I aspect from 2007 to 2018, having performed 75 out of 84 potential video games for the aspect. He stays the one batter with a century for Bangladesh, ending because the third highest run-scorer with 1701 runs at 24.65 common. Tamim is more likely to play in home T20 competitions. He is the all-time leading run-scorer in the BPL, having performed in each season of the event.
