The Tamim Iqbal Khan Thread

[deshimon]

Tamim is in firing mood now. Hope he will continue this style in next series against West Indies.

[BengaliPagol]

Originally Posted by Dilscoop
No. More like rightly so that he doesn't include any Bangladeshi names on his reports/stats. Is there anything mention worthy? No. This was, so he mentioned it. I've looked at his stuff, they are usually some high class stats, occupied by world class players. This hardly has anything to do with nationality, more to do with the quality.

Stop hating on the guy.

your saying im the hater? I dont hate. I appreciate.

[nadim 98]

Dissapointed, very dissapointed. I would have preferd him going out for a golden duck to a beauty than the way he got out.

These players never learn, just talks BS

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[Cricketpremi]

Who asked him to do that? we where on the verge of having a good innings.

Now a lose is on the cards

[shakibrulz]

Tamim is clearly BDeshi Sehwag (although more technically correct) temperamentally speaking. Awful shot to end a fine innings - dunno if I should praise him or rue him for throwing it away.

[al Furqaan]

While the dismissal is totally his fault...we simply don't play enough Tests/FC matches. We're playing after 12 month gaps on a routine basis, so can't fault him entirely entirely.

[WarWolf]

Originally Posted by shakibrulz
Tamim is clearly BDeshi Sehwag (although more technically correct) temperamentally speaking. Awful shot to end a fine innings - dunno if I should praise him or rue him for throwing it away.

As long as he can increase his test average I dont mind playing like this.

[Maysun]

^ @Furqaan bhai, of course we can.

He is a professional and has been playing International cricket for half a decade. He should know what the situation demanded of him that delivery.

[Rabz]

Very disappointing the way he got out. The century was there for the taking and an easy one that is.
His wicket makes a mega huge difference to our batting approach and should have must have stayed till the end of the day. He was in superb touch and had he stayed at least till lunch tomorrow, we would have gone a lot lot further.

Entertaining 60 odd in test cricket means very little.

[Habib]

Tamim has no one but himself to blame for not getting to 100. WTF kinda shot was that? He almost got out TWICE playing similar kind of shots prior to that. Infuriating.

[nadim 98]

I hope he blame himself front of the media rather than saying he is happy with his 72....

[zinatf]

Jei Lau Shei Kodu!!

[mali007]

When he changed the bat afte getting life from Best , I thought about his dismisal any moment .

[Mav]

Originally Posted by zinatf
Jei Lau Shei Kodu!!

Why dont you coach him a bit? If this is the attitude of us fans after a batsman play an innings of 72, then even the "Shame of us fans" will be an overstatement.

Fans support teams/players through good and bad times, learn it from EPL, La Liga fans. And we BD cricket fans use offensive proverbs when someone made a 72, and could not capitalize it on a 100. Wow.

Tamim made it clear many times through media that -

It is my style, and I will continue to play this way. Sometime it will look fabolous, sometime ugly

Ofcourse we want to see he reach 100's, but he wants it more than any of us. He said he is now focused on capitalizing, so sit back and let him play. He doesnt have an average nearing 40.00 in test for no reason, and that dont deserve any bad mouthing from fantasizing fans.

[Jadukor]

^^ wth hell are you on about? he played an idiotic tennis forehand to a ball that should have been left alone. That was a horrendous shot in the context of the game and he should be criticized. If you want to put him on a pedestal and worship him and reinforce idiotic behavior then do so by yourself but for the rest of us, we will choose to compliment him when he plays brilliantly and criticize when he does something stupid.

[Ajfar]

Until Tamim learns how to control his aggression he will not be one of the top batsman in this format. There is nothing wrong with playing aggresively, but if he wants to have more big innings under his belt he will have to learn to control that aggression. You can't whack every ball out of the ground. You miggt get away with one or two or maybe even 10, but soon enough you will get out. I would love to see Tamim turn into one of the best in this format. But if he keeps playing like this he will just be that good player BD had lots of good start but just couldn't make the best of it.

[Tiger444]

By BD standards it's a good score but by Tamim's standards he should be aiming for 100's now. He's capable of it and he has enough experience now to higher up his standards.

[deshimon]

When our batsmen will learn how to bat in which situation? In this Test most of our batsmen are experienced. Specially Tamim, Junaid and Nafis who are playing cricket in national team more than half of a decade. But they learn nothing from their experiences. If a player can learn over half of a decade, you can't expect they will learn later.

[roman]

We are criticizing a batsman who scored 72 in a test match indicates how much we expect from him. We should actually thank him for that innings although the way he got out is not appropriate even in T20. He could've easily scored a 100. But That innings should boost other player's confidence.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by roman
We are criticizing a batsman who scored 72 in a test match indicates how much we expect from him. We should actually thank him for that innings although the way he got out is not appropriate even in T20. He could've easily scored a 100. But That innings should boost other player's confidence.

And rightly so. There are questions of whether Tamim is a class player or he's a world class player. I believe he's in between the 2 as of now. If he wants to be known as a world class player, then it's time he converts more half centuries in to centuries. He's got too much ability to just miss out on so many centuries.

[NoName]

This is his style, I don't expect him to change (God know why he plays 1/3 of this SR in T20s lol) but if he's scoring runs playing uber aggresively then he needs to learn his shot choices properly then.

[Huda]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
While the dismissal is totally his fault...we simply don't play enough Tests/FC matches. We're playing after 12 month gaps on a routine basis, so can't fault him entirely entirely.

Catch 22 situation. I already believe he is world class, but not enough FC/test cricket doesn't enable him to iron out these rash strokes he suddenly plays. You don't go to England where power houses like Sehwag have struggled and single handedly take on the one best attacks like he did 2 summers ago without having something about you. He need somehow needs to get a season of county cricket under him which i believe would help him immensely.

[simon]

would love to see the highlights.
Looks like a typical entertaining innings.
But I am very disappointed that he couldn't get a 100.
After Jamie left Tamim doesn't seem to value hundreds as much as he used to.
I hope there is a self realization in him, and that he is badly regretting on this missed opportunity, a test hundred is not a matter of joke.
He is too good to be content with 50s/70s, once he understands that nothing can come between him & a big innings.
But I don't see him changing, I remember he scored 2 fifties last year vs WI & probably scored a 80 something and gave his wicket away.
It's such a shame.

[nadim 98]

This is what Shiva said about Tamim.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whose double-century pushed West Indies to a strong position, also backed Tamim's belligerent approach. "That's his style," Chanderpaul said. "We can't be surprised [at] how Christopher Gayle bats also. He bats one way, we can't tell him how to bat. If Tamim has his style, he has to play his game."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/banglade...ry/591328.html

[simon]

^^challu Chondorpaul, dilo cheleta ke aro ushkani diya, ekhon century'r possibility aro kom.
Kothay ektu shomalochona tomalochona korbe, dhire matha thanda rekhe khelte bolbe ta na.

But Chanderpaul is indeed a wonderful character