Frustrated Tamim Iqbal lashes out at BCB over T20I return: I’m not being given an opportunity to talk

Bangladesh have desperately needed to incorporate opener Tamim Iqbal within the T20I squad after their debacle within the final World Cup.

File photograph of Tamim Iqbal. (Courtesy: Reuters)

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Veteran Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal has been left pissed off with the Bangladesh Cricket Board. The captain of the ODI staff has lashed out on the board’s speculations of him enjoying within the T20I aspect, indicating that the BCB has been feeding lies to the general public.

This comes within the background of Tamim excluding himself from the T20I format going into the 2022 T20 World Cup. Iqbal has mentioned that he desires to avoid the T20I aspect until the World Cup as his focus will probably be on enjoying the Test and the ODI format. He had introduced his determination late in January this 12 months, and mentioned that he would solely return if the BCB ask him to be within the staff.

His determination got here after Bangladesh had been badly hammered within the T20I World Cup within the UAE, the place their commonplace of cricket was a lot under the opposite worldwide groups.

BCB, over the previous few months have said that they’ve held talks with Iqbal for returning within the T20I aspect, however the ODI captain has not answered again.

Iqbal lashed out in Dhaka on Sunday, 5 June, stating that he has not been given a single likelihood to clarify his aspect within the media.

”Nobody offers me an opportunity to clarify my plan concerning my T20s. Either you [media] say it or another person tells it [regarding my T20’s future] and let it transfer like this as a result of I’m not given any likelihood [by the board] to inform something,” Tamim advised reporters at Dhaka on Sunday.

”I play for therefore lengthy no less than I deserve it, what I really feel or suppose they need to hear it from me,” he mentioned.

”But both you [media] give some type of notion or somebody (board) else tells one thing. And as they are saying one thing I haven’t got something to say,” he added.

With just some months left for the T20 World Cup in Australia, Bangladesh have to choose a mix. The board has been criticised typically for the standard of their pitches main as much as the World Cup and for the general public spats between the participant and the president as effectively.

As issues stand, Tamim Iqbal will probably be travelling with the Bangladesh Test staff to the Caribbean shores to play a full tour.