Goodbye Legend....
Hot afternoon,
I am sitting in grandmothers house in Faridpur.
The smell of Jamrul tree is coming from the window, the sound of rickshaws on the road.
None of this is touching my senses - because my eyes are on the TV screen.
Bangladesh and Pakistan Test match is going on TV.
The famous Multan Test.
Bangladesh seems to win.
Bangladesh's first Test victory - will be in front of me - can you imagine?
Not until the end.
Bangladesh lost.
And there was a time when this thing was a very normal occurrence.
Bangladesh will play Tests or ODIs and accept a "respectable defeat".
Rajin Saleh will hit some fours, Ashraful will play some shots - and the whole team will try to make 200 and end up at 180.
I remember once in Mirpur, Australia hit four sixes and made the Test match an ODI with Bangladesh.
Later in the press conference it was asked why you are playing in such a one-day mood in the test?
Watson said - It is very hot in Dhaka today. So we decided not to score runs, just hit 4 and 6.
This was Bangladesh national team.
Then came Tamim and his 4 companions.
Who knew that Zaheer Khan came down the wicket and flew for a six at mid-off?
Does anyone know Bangladesh?
The answer is no.
We never dreamed that one of our openers would dominate like this.
We are now number 3 ODI team from 11th ODI team.
These things do not come from the sky.
It takes people.
People like Tamim Iqbal.
If Tamim Iqbal was not born, no one's name in Bangladesh would have been written in the Lord's Century Book, Tamim Iqbal is affectionately called "Lord Tamim" by the fans.
Whose shame is this?
Tamim Iqbal's?
no
This is the shame of dear Bangladesh :)
Sometimes I think, how is our Bangladesh so strange? Why are we such people?
We call him calm and abuse him like a madman. I give the title of Sir Shanta.
Nazmul Hasan Papon and our selectors are abused every day.
But we forget the so-called success in Bangladesh cricket - all the achievements of Papon and the selectors in the last 12 years of cricket.
BCB is not such a multi-crore organization. The above people have done something good, right?
A very simple example is the working of the Football Federation - you compare and see what happens if you don't run well.
- Tamim Iqbal's highest runs in a whole team at 5 in our last 8 series
- Hugely successful as a captain. No one in the country has such a high winning percentage.
- By getting 155 points in the Super League, Bangladesh is currently the world's 3rd best ODI team - Where the West Indies type team is getting eliminated without getting a chance in the World Cup, we don't have to play in the qualifiers.
Today everyone says you want to play a match unfit to be sure whether you are fit or not, don't play if unfit :p
But this unfit Tamim, batting with a broken hand in the Asia Cup - none of us thought - hey, why is Tamim playing unfit.
Fingers broken, bandaged - also batted.
It was unfit - wasn't it?
If it was unfit, then it was not worn - for us it will do - that is normal. If you do well, if you don't, I will scold you.
After playing cricket for 15 years, playing well in 4 consecutive matches in the Asia Cup, taking Bangladesh to the final, becoming the captain and making the country the number 3 one day team in just 3 years, the best opener in the history of Bangladesh came to the press conference and said today while crying:
"Brother I tried, I tried my best"
After listening to this, those who were calling Tamim Lord Tamim until yesterday - they will miss you Tamim with emotional music.
Because this nation is very strange.
This nation has no faith.
There is no such person who has done something for this nation but does not abuse it :)
No such person will come forward.
Thank you Tamim Iqbal.
Thank you for making Bangladesh Cricket Team what it is today!
No one will forget your contribution to Bangladesh cricket unless you are crazy!
[Note : this article is copy from Facebook. The owner of the article is Khalid Farhan.]