Tamim Iqbal

Tamim Iqbal Khan (Bengali: তামিম ইকবাল খান; born 20 March 1989) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. Tamim made his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2007 and played his first test match the following year. He served as vice-captain of the national side between December 2010 and September 2011. Tamim has scored centuries in all three formats of the game and is also the first Bangladeshi to score 10,000 international runs. In January 2018 against Zimbabwe at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, he became the first batsman for Bangladesh to reach 6,000 runs in ODIs and has gone past Sanath Jayasuriya's 2,514 runs at the R. Premadasa Stadium to become highest run-scorer at a single venue in ODIs. 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 20 centuries, combining all forms of cricket. He is currently the highest run-scorer for Bangladesh in international cricket, including Test matches, ODIs and Twenty20 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 played his 200th ODI match for Bangladesh during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In January 2020, Tamim made the highest score in first-class cricket by a Bangladeshi batsman, with 334 not out, for East Zone in the opening round of the 2019–20 Bangladesh Cricket League tournament.