Dhaka: Bangladesh cricket team opener Tamim Iqbal has announced his retirement from T20 Internationals.
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal wrote in a social media message on the social networking site that ‘From today I am retiring from T20 cricket, I am grateful to everyone.
Earlier, the Bangladesh opener had taken a month’s break from T20 cricket and was asked to announce his future in six months.
Representing Bengal Tigers in T20 Internationals, Tamim Iqbal played 78 matches in which he scored 1758 runs at an average of 24.08 and a strike rate of 117.
The captain of Bangladesh’s ODI team has scored a century and 7 fifties in his T20 career.
It should be noted that Tamim Iqbal announced his retirement at the end of the third ODI of the series against West Indies.