Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladesh opener, said that his position within the one-day global crew is to bat for as long as feasible and construct the innings.

Tamim is certainly one of Bangladesh’s maximum experienced batsmen and their main run-scorer in ODIs considering that 2017. Overall, he has scored 6540 runs in 190 ODIs, at a mean of 36.33, and is regularly trusted to play an anchoring function.

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“Can’t I play more photographs if I need to? Don’t I need to be adventurous too? But the issue is, we play for the crew. There is not anything larger than the group,” Tamim informed Cricbuzz. “Say, I performed with 150 strike-rate, but the group misplaced. What’s the point then? But I played with 60 strike-price, but the crew received, I am glad. The crew wants me to bat deep after I am in. I can take into account that, and I am at ease with that function.”

Tamim credited former countrywide team head instructor Jamie Siddons with enhancing his batting. The 30-year-vintage said that he changed into to start with suffering to get entering into Bangladesh’s opening game of the Ireland tri-kingdom collection, against West Indies, on Tuesday, 7 May. But he recalled Siddons’ phrases, which gave him the power to push on. As a result, after scoring simply six runs off his first 30 balls, he hit back-to-lower back fours against Kemar Roach inside the tenth over before going on to notch up his forty-fifth ODI 1/2-century and share a hundred and forty four-run establishing stand with Soumya Sarkar.

“The accurate issue about my innings turned into that once struggling; you may pop out and play a rash shot and say in all likelihood it changed into now not my day. But going thru the struggle and surviving was tough. In the cease, you may have an impact on the final results of the sport.

“I learned this lesson from Jamie Siddons as he always used to say, ‘while you are suffering, you only have options: either you could return to the dressing room and sit down with us, or you can combat it out within the middle.'”

Bangladesh will play West Indies once more on Monday, thirteen May. They are mainly the table with six points in their kitty. After the tri-collection, they may play warm-up video games earlier than starting their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 marketing campaign on 2 June towards South Africa on the Oval.