Tamim feeling the heat
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal surely feeling the heat as he opted to have an individual practice session at the indoor nets of the County Ground in Bristol on Sunday.
It was raining in Bristol in the evening, but Tamim still went to work on his game and faced throwdowns in the indoor nets of the venue for Bangladesh’s World Cup match against Sri Lanka on June 11 while the rest of the team were resting after traveling from Cardiff in the afternoon.
Tamim, Bangladesh’s highest ODI run-scorer, has not had a happy World Cup so far. In the three matches against South Africa, New Zealand, and England the left-hander got out for scores of 16, 24 and 19 respectively.
The World Cup is a not a perfect platform for Tamim as far stat suggest as he averages 22 in the global cricket tournament while he average 36 in ODI’s.
However, former national skipper Shahriar Nafees believes it is just around the corner.
‘’Tamim is not scoring big but in every match, he is making a good start,’’ Shahriar told a private TV channel ahead of their game against Sri Lanka.
‘’When Tamim will score big it will be easier for Bangladesh to post or chase a big total,’’ he said.
Tamim hit the last of his 11 ODI centuries on July 28 against West Indies in Basseterre last year, but he has not been in bad form since. He has hit four half-centuries in the 14 innings since that ton, including two in the tri-series in Ireland last month.
The manner of his dismissals has been a slight concern in this World Cup. While he got out to a good ball bowled by South Africa’s Andile Phehlukwayo in the opener on June 2, he was dismissed trying to pull short deliveries while out of position in the games against New Zealand and South Africa.
For a player whose role is to bat deep into the innings, that sort of dismissal, especially the one against New Zealand pacer Lockie Ferguson, hinted at an unsettled mindset
