Well, interesting point Roey.
So I did an analysis...
for the last 10 years I looked at the players who were less than 22 (Tamim just turned 23) who have played against G8 nations an batted at pos 1 to 7 and have more than 500 runs to their name.
I then calculated what percentage of their runs were run (they actually ran between the wickets) as a function of their total runs earned... this I label as '123/TotalRuns'. It shows a matter of mentality, work ethic, rotating the strike, fitness.
Here is the table, Tamim does not fare well.... And in the whole world, our Roq is the hardest young worker!
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...s;type=batting
55% of Tamim's Runs are from boundaries. Compare that to Shakib's 37% and Roq's 28%.