Opener Tamim Iqbal’s bad time continues to linger as the Chittagong lad has faced yet another blow after he injured himself in the wrist in the match against Rajshahi Division in the National Cricket League on Monday to be ruled out for the next two weeks. Tamim, who remained far from his best in recent times dealing with injury along with other issues, injured himself in the wrist while playing a half-volley that hit his lower part of the bat that jerked sufficently to make the damage.
‘Tamim is ruled out for the next two weeks,’ Akram Khan, the BCB’s cricket operation chairman, told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday. ‘It was the same wrist that he had damaged earlier.’
Tamim earlier injured himself in the left wrist during the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier League when he was pulled out of Duronto Rajshahi’s campaign towards the end, after injury while fielding against Sylhet Royals.
Tamim had to pay the price while he was performing his national duty as he was forced to sit out of the first Test against Sri Lanka due to the wrist injury he picked up at the BPL, prompting the opener to miss his first Test in 27 games since his debut five years ago.
Tamim, who is yet to make any notable contribution, was also ruled out from the lone Twenty20 international against New Zealand with lower abdominal strain that also made him miss the third and final ODI of the series that followed later.
In the next home series, Bangladesh were forced to play the three-match ODI against Sri Lanka without Tamim Iqbal because of his stiff neck, an injury he picked up before the Twenty20 series in Chittagong.
There is, however, some controversy regarding Tamim, who played both the Twenty20 matches in Chittagong with the injury that aggravated in the process for him to score only 45 runs.
Tamim was under the media scanner after he had resigned from the position of vice-captain after the appointment of Mashrafee as Twenty20 captain in the wake of an injury of Mushfiqur Rahim.
The Bangladesh management did not risk an injured Tamim Iqbal in the next international assignment with an aim to have him fit for the World Twenty20 in March as they rested him in the Asia Cup.
Although he could hardly justify his billing as he made only 83 runs from the seven matches that the Tigers participated in and remained a shadow of his own.
While other national mates in the NCL also made some individual contribution, Tamim remained quite the opposite making one in the first innings while being retired hurt in the second.
-With New Age input
