Tamim Happy To Get Back Into Business

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal said on Saturday that he is relieved to get back into business after making a comeback in competitive cricket with the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League, country’s lone franchise-based T20 tournament  

Tamim, who was playing his first competitive game since September last year, looked solid at the crease before he was finally dismissed by Nabi after making 35 off 24 balls that helped Fortune Barishal to earn a five wicket win over Rangpur Riders at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday.

“The job became easy after the early boundary in the powerplay but I was playing well in the practice in the recent past and the two match scenario practice game that I played it helped me a lot,” Tamim said.

Certainly there was some nerve but after getting the first boundary it calmed down to large extent when you get boundary initially. 

“Certainly it feels good but this innings wont define how I will play the whole tournament it will be defined how I handle different challenges that will come during the tournament,” he said.

“I am happy to make a good start,” he added.

 Pacer Khaled Ahmed’s career-best T20 bowling figure of 4-31 helped Fortune Barishal win their opening match of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League as they beat Rangpur Riders by five wickets at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday.

Khaled claimed the wickets of Rony Talukdar (five) and Shakib Al Hasan (two) in his first over after Barishal sent Rangpur to bat first while he also took two more wickets of Mahedi Hasan (29) and Hasan Mahmud (0) in the final over to restrict Rangpur to 134-9 in 20 overs.