|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal on Friday thanked his former batting mentor Jamie Siddons for teaching him the lesson that helps him in trying times.

Tamim was known to be very fond of the Australian during his stint with the Bangladesh team as head coach from 2007 till 2011 ICC World Cup as he mentioned on several occasions that Siddons had a great impact on developing his batting.

It seemed the Australian came back to his mind when he was battling against West Indies in their opening game of the ongoing tri-nation when he was finding it hard to play his natural game.

While Soumya Sarkar was playing an elegant innings, Tamim seemed to be struggling initially and took a long time to come out of his shell to notch up his 45 th ODI fifty as well as lay the platform for the eight wicket win with a record 144-run opening stand.

Tamim, who had crawled to 6 off 30 started to get to back to his zone after hitting successive boundaries off Kemar Roach.

“The good thing about my innings was that after struggling in such manner one can come out and play a rash shot and say probably it was not my day

“But going through the struggle and surviving [that phase] was difficult because you might hear a few words [for struggling in such manner] but at the end you will have an impact on the outcome of the game,’’ he said.