Desk Report
Publish: 22 Jan 2022, 11:23 pm
BCB President Nazmul Hassan Papon || Photo: Collected
Nazmul
Hassan Papon, the president of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), revealed that
Tamim Iqbal is not interested to play the T20 format of cricket.
His comment came hours after Tamim
struck his second consecutive half-century in the Bangladesh Premier League
(BPL) T20 tournament. Despite his effort, Minister Group Dhaka lost all of
those two matches.
"Last
time when I talked to him over telephone, I told him to get back to T20
cricket. I said you are our best opener so why you would quit this format. You
must play," Papon said here today.
"He
just told me one thing that "please don't force me." If you force me,
I have to play. But I really don't want to play this format. When he said this,
it seems to me that I should not force him further. If anyone doesn't want to
play, I should not force him."
Tamim last played T20 International
cricket in 2020 and then was out of the action for a long time to recover from
his injury. However he withdrew his name from the T20 World Cup squad by
showing the reason that those who played regularly in this format, should be
included in the squad ahead of him.
Rumour was rife that T20 captain
Mahmudullah Riyad doesn't want Tamim to be included into the World Cup squad
since he was out of the game for a long time, which angered the opener so much
so that he withdrew his name. Both Tamim and Riyad refuted this rumour.
Meanwhile, Tamim's slow approach in
T20 format was also criticized vehemently for some time now. Critics said his
slow batting put pressure on the middle order to increase the run rate and the
urge forced Bangladesh's collapse more often in this format.
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