*** Welcome to piglix ***

Tamim Iqbal

Tamim Iqbal Khan
তামিম ইকবাল খান
Tamim Iqbal Khan.jpg
Personal information
Full name Tamim Iqbal Khan
Born (1989-03-20) 20 March 1989 (age 28)
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting style Left handed batsman
Bowling style Right arm off break
Role Opening batsman
Relations Akram Khan (paternal uncle)
Nafees Iqbal (brother)
Ayesha Siddiqua(Spouse)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 51) 4 January 2008 v New Zealand
Last Test 19 March 2017 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 83) 9 February 2007 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 31 December 2016 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 28
T20I debut (cap 17) 1 September 2007 v Kenya
Last T20I 8 January 2017 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years Team
2004–present Chittagong Division
2011 Nottinghamshire
2012 Chittagong Kings
2013 Duronto Rajshahi
2012 Wayamba United
2012–2013 Wellington Firebirds
2012-2013 Pune Warriors India
2015–present Chittagong Vikings
2016-present Peshawar Zalmi
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 44 162 55 72
Runs scored 3,349 5,124 1,202 5,428
Batting average 40.34 32.43 24.04 43.42
100s/50s 8/19 7/34 1/4 13/31
Top score 206 154 103* 206
Balls bowled 30 6 252
Wickets 0 0 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match n/a
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 12/– 37/– 12/– 25/–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 8 January 2017

Tamim Iqbal Khan (Bengali: তামিম ইকবাল খান), (born 20 March 1989) is an international Bangladeshi cricketer and former Test captain of the team. Tamim made his One Day International debut in 2007 and played his first Test the following year. A left-handed opening batsman, he is the Bangladeshi's most successful runscorer to date. Between December 2010 and September 2011 he was vice-captain of the national side. Considered as the best ever opening batsman for Bangladesh, Tamim has set up centuries in all three formats of the game and is also the first Bangladeshi to score 10,000 international runs.

In 2011 he was named as one of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's four Cricketers of the Year, and Wisden's Test Player of the Year, becoming just the second Bangladeshi player to be awarded the accolade. He plays first-class cricket for Chittagong Division cricket team. He is the highest individual run scorer for Bangladesh in limited over formats and only Bangladeshi cricketer to score centuries in all three formats of the game. Tamim is also Bangladesh's highest century maker in international matches with 14 centuries, combining all forms of cricket. He scored 206 runs in a Test match. He is the best Test run scorer of Bangladesh National Cricket Team.

He is currently the 2nd highest run-scorer for Bangladesh in international cricket, including Test matches, ODIs and T20 internationals. He is the second Bangladeshi cricketer to score 3,000 runs in Tests and 5,000 runs in ODIs and also the first Bangladeshi cricketer to go past 1,000 runs in T20Is.

He was named an international elite player for the inaugural Caribbean Premier League in 2013.

Tamim Iqbal was born to the late Iqbal Khan and Nusrat Iqbal, in the port city of Chittagong. His paternal Khan family is a prestigious family in the city.


...
Wikipedia

...