Tamim Iqbal announces retirement from T20Is

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal takes to social media to announce his retirement from T20 Internationals (T20I), following the conclusion of the One-Day International (ODI) series against Bangladesh on Saturday (July 16). 

Tamim led Bangladesh to a 3-0 whitewash in the ODI series, with him finishing as the leading run-scorer in the series with 117 runs at 58.50, that saw him clinch the player of the series award.

"Please consider me retired from T20Is from today. Thank you everyone," Tamim wrote on his official Facebook page in Bangla.

Tamim, who last played a T20I for Bangladesh in 2020, had announced that he would take a six-month break from T20Is in January this year but continued to play in the domestic T20 tournament. He had insisted that he would clear his stand on playing T20Is before his deadline ended. 

Since making his T20I debut in 2007, Tamim has gone on to play 74 times for Bangladesh, scoring 1,701 runs at 24.65 along with seven fifties and a century. His best score of 103 not out - Bangladesh's first and only century in T20Is - came against Oman in the World T20 2016 in Dharamsala. 

He has also played four times for ICC World XI. His last 50-plus score for Bangladesh came against West Indies in 2018 at Lauderhill in August 2018.