Tamim Iqbal Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Children

Tamim Iqbal is a Bangladeshi professional cricketer who has represented his country in all 3 formats of the sport (Tests, ODIs, and T20Is), as an opening batter. He was an integral member of the Bangladeshi squad that reached the semi-final of the 2017 edition of the ICC (International Cricket Council) Champions Trophy – the first time that the team had made it to the semi-final stage of any major senior-level ICC event. Tamim was also a key member of the Bangladeshi squads that finished as the runner-up at the 2012, 2016, and 2018 editions of the ACC Asia Cup (a continental limited-overs cricket tournament that was established in 1983 by the ACC (Asian Cricket Council) to promote goodwill between Asian countries) – the first 3 times that the country had achieved the feat. In the Bangladeshi domestic circuit, he has played for Chittagong Division (2004-Present) across all formats. Tamim has also played domestic cricket outside of his home country, representing Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club (2011) and Essex County Cricket Club (2017) in England; and the Wellington Firebirds (2012-13) in New Zealand. In franchise-based T20 leagues, he has turned out for the Chittagong Kings (2012), Duronto Rajshahi (2013), the Chittagong Vikings (2015-2016), the Comilla Victorians (2017-2019), Dhaka Platoon (2019-20), Fortune Barishal (2021), Minister Dhaka (2022), and the Khulna Tigers (2023) in the BPL (Bangladesh Premier League); Pune Warriors India (2012-2013) in the IPL (Indian Premier League); the St Lucia Zouks (2013) in the CPL (Caribbean Premier League); and Peshawar Zalmi (2016-2018) and the Lahore Qalandars (2020) in the PSL (Pakistan Super League).

Born Name

Tamim Iqbal Khan

Nick Name

Tamim

Sun Sign

Pisces

Born Place

Chittagong (officially known as Chattogram), Bangladesh

Residence

Chittagong, Bangladesh

Nationality

Occupation

Professional Cricketer

Family

• Father – Iqbal Khan (Soccer Player (Retired))
• Mother – Nusrat Iqbal Khan
• Siblings – Nafees Iqbal (Older Brother) (Professional Cricketer (Retired)), Urusha Khan (Sister)
• Others – Akram Khan (Paternal Uncle) (Professional Cricketer (Retired))

Batting

Left-Handed

Bowling

Right-Arm Off-Break

Role

Opening Batter

Jersey Number

• 28 – Test Match, One Day International (ODI), Duronto Rajshahi (BPL), Chittagong Vikings (BPL), Lahore Qalandars (PSL), Fortune Barishal (BPL), Minister Dhaka (BPL), Khulna Tigers (BPL)
• 28, 29 – T20 International (T20I)
• 29 – St Lucia Zouks (CPL), Peshawar Zalmi (PSL)

Build

Athletic

Height

5 ft 11 in or 180.5 cm

Weight

78 kg or 172 lbs

Girlfriend / Spouse

Tamim has dated –

1. Ayesha Siddiqa (2013-Present) – Tamim married Ayesha Siddiqa in June 2013 in a grand ceremony held in his hometown of Chittagong. The couple has 2 children together – a son named Arham Iqbal Khan (b. February 2016) and a daughter named Alishba Iqbal Khan (b. November 2019).

Race / Ethnicity

Asian

He is of Bangladeshi descent.

Hair Color

Black

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

• Toned physique
• Short-cropped, side-parted hair
• Affable smile
• Sports a beard

Religion

Islam

Tamim Iqbal Facts

1. Before breaking into the senior national team in February 2007, Tamim was a key member of Bangladesh’s squad at the 2006 edition of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. It was the 6th edition of the tournament and the 5th in which Bangladesh participated. The team won all 3 of its group-stage matches but lost in the quarter-final stage. Bangladesh won its remaining 2 matches and finished in 5th position overall, the team’s then-best performance in the tournament.
2. In July 2009, he scored his maiden test match century – 128 runs against the West Indies in the 1st match of a 2-match bilateral away series. His ‘Player of the Match’ performance led Bangladesh to a 95-run victory – their first against the West Indies in the test match format as well as their first overseas test match victory. Bangladesh won the second match of the series as well (by 4 wickets), securing their first overseas test series victory. Tamim was the leading run-scorer in the series (197 runs) on either side.
3. In March 2010, he became the then-fastest Bangladeshi batter to reach 1,000 runs in the test match format (19 innings). He also became the then 3rd-youngest player overall to have reached this milestone.
4. In Bangladesh’s opening match of the group stage of the 2012 edition of the ACC Asia Cup, Tamim was the team’s joint top-scorer (64 runs) in a 21-run defeat to Pakistan. In the team’s next match, he produced a team-best score of 70 runs in a 5-wicket victory over India. This was the match in which the legendary Sachin Tendulkar reached the magical milestone of 100 centuries in international cricket.
5. In Bangladesh’s next match of the tournament (the last of the group stage), against Sri Lanka, he again produced a team-best score of 59 runs in a 5-wicket win via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method (a controversial system of readjusting targets in rain-affected matches). The result meant that Bangladesh qualified for the final of the tournament – they were tied with India on 8 points from 3 matches but qualified for the final as they had defeated India in their group stage encounter.
6. This was the 11th edition of the ACC Asia Cup, the 10th in which Bangladesh participated, and the first time that the team had reached the final. In the final, against Pakistan, Tamim was the 2nd-highest run-getter (60 runs) in a heartbreaking 2-run defeat. His string of excellent performances (64 runs, 70 runs, 59 runs, and 60 runs) helped him finish the tournament as the 2nd highest run-getter overall (253 runs in 4 matches). He also became the first Bangladeshi player to have scored 4 consecutive ODI fifties.
7. He was an integral member of the Bangladeshi squad that secured the ‘Bronze’ medal at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. It was just the 2nd instance of cricket being a part of the Asian Games – the first was in 2010 when Bangladesh had won the ‘Gold’ medal in the men’s event. Tamim was not a part of the Bangladeshi squad in 2010.
8. In Bangladesh’s 4th match of the group stage of the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, he struck 95 runs off 100 balls to help his team hunt down Scotland’s total of 318 runs with 6 wickets and nearly 2 overs to spare. This was Bangladesh’s then-highest successful run-chase in the ODI format as well as the then 2nd highest successful run-chase by any team in the tournament’s history. Bangladesh upset England by a narrow margin of 15 runs in its next match of the group stage and qualified for the quarter-final stage of the tournament.
9. This was the 12th edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, the 5th in which Bangladesh participated, just the 2nd time (the 1st instance was in 2007) that Bangladesh had progressed past the group stage and the first time that the team had reached the tournament’s knockout stage. In the quarter-final, defending champions India defeated Bangladesh by a massive margin of 109 runs.
10. In April 2015, Tamim scored 132 runs and 116 runs not out (his 5th and 6th ODI centuries), respectively, in the first 2 matches of a 3-match bilateral home series against Pakistan. Bangladesh won both those matches (their first wins over Pakistan since 1999). He was named the ‘Player of the Match’ in the 2nd of these matches. The win in that 2nd match gave Bangladesh their first-ever series win over Pakistan.
11. He scored 64 runs in the last match of the series – an 8-wicket win that meant that Bangladesh had swept the series by a 3-0 margin (Bangladesh’s first white-wash of Pakistan in an ODI series). Tamim finished as the highest run-getter in the series (312 runs) on either side and was named the ‘Player of the Series’.
12. In Bangladesh’s opening match of the first round of the 2016 edition of the ICC World Twenty20, he scored the match-best knock of 83 runs not out (off 58 balls) to help Bangladesh reach a fighting total of 153 runs. The team went on to defeat the Netherlands by a narrow margin of 8 runs and Tamim was named the ‘Player of the Match’. In Bangladesh’s next match, against Ireland, he again top-scored (47 runs off 26 balls) but the match ended in a ‘no result’ as it could not be completed due to incessant rain.
13. In Bangladesh’s next match of the tournament (the last of the first round), he smashed 103 runs not out off 63 deliveries in a comfortable win against Oman – a result that helped Bangladesh qualify for the ‘Super 10’ stage of the tournament. He was named the ‘Player of the Match’ once again. This was the first century ever scored by a Bangladeshi batter in a T20I match and made Tamim the first (and as of July 2023, the only) Bangladeshi batter to have scored a century in all 3 formats – Tests, ODIs, and T20Is. He was the 11th player overall to have achieved this rare feat.
14. The previous highest score by a Bangladeshi batter in a T20I match was 88 runs not out (also by Tamim – in December 2012, against the West Indies). Incredibly, no other Bangladeshi batter, as of July 2023, had managed to score a century in the T20I format and the aforementioned 2 performances (103 runs not out and 88 runs not out) remained the highest individual scores by a Bangladeshi batter in the T20I format.
15. Bangladesh then lost all 4 of its ‘Super 10’ stage matches of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. Tamim’s form tapered as well as he could manage just 62 runs in the 3 matches that he played at this stage of the tournament. Despite this, he finished the tournament as the leading run-getter – 295 runs in 6 innings at a scintillating average of 73.75 runs per inning and a robust strike rate of 142.51 runs scored per 100 balls faced.
16. In the 2016-17 season of the BPL (Bangladesh Premier League, the top-tier franchise-based professional T20 cricket league in Bangladesh), representing the Chittagong Vikings, he finished as the leading run-getter – 476 runs in 13 innings at an excellent average of 43.27 runs per inning. He also scored 6 50s in the tournament.
17. In Bangladesh’s opening group-stage game of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, he struck his 9th ODI century (128) runs to guide his team to a highly competitive total of 305 runs. Co-hosts England, however, chased it down with ridiculous ease, marking the first instance of a total in excess of 300 runs being successfully chased down in the tournament’s history. Tamim was the lone bright spot (95 runs) in Bangladesh’s paltry total of 182 runs in the team’s next match, against Australia.
18. Thankfully, rain intervened during Australia’s innings and prevented any further play which meant that the teams shared a point apiece. Bangladesh then defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets in the team’s 3rd (and last) encounter of the group stage. This was the 8th edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, the 5th in which Bangladesh participated (their first appearance since 2006), and the win against New Zealand was just Bangladesh’s 2nd in the tournament’s history.
19. Australia’s defeat to England in the last match of the group stage meant that Bangladesh qualified for the semi-final stage of any major senior-level ICC event for the first time in history. In the semi-final, against defending champions India, Tamim top-scored for Bangladesh (70 runs) to help the team set a middling target of 265 runs. India bulldozed that target with 9 wickets and nearly 10 overs to spare. He finished the tournament as the 3rd-highest run-getter overall – 293 runs in 4 matches at a brilliant average of 73.25 runs per inning. He was also included in the ‘Team of the Tournament’ by the ICC.
20. In the 2018-19 season of the BPL, representing the Comilla Victorians, he finished as the 2nd highest run-getter – 467 runs in 14 innings at a stellar average of 38.91 runs per inning. In the final of the tournament, Tamim smoked 141 runs not out off just 61 deliveries. He was named the ‘Player of the Match’ for his outstanding performance that helped the Comilla Victorians win their 2nd BPL title (the first was in the 2015-16 season).
21. His knock of 141 runs not out was the first time that a century had been scored by a Bangladeshi batter in the final of any senior-level T20 cricket tournament (international or domestic). As of July 2023, it remained the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi batter in any senior-level T20 cricket match (international or domestic).
22. In early March 2020, in the 3rd match of a 3-match bilateral home ODI series against Zimbabwe, Tamim recorded a partnership of 292 runs, with Litton Das, for the 1st wicket. As of July 2023, this remained the highest partnership for Bangladesh, for any wicket, in ODIs; as well as the 3rd-highest opening partnership by any team in ODIs. Just a couple of days after this match, he was named the captain of Bangladesh’s ODI squad.
23. In May 2021, he captained the Bangladeshi squad that defeated Sri Lanka by a 2-1 margin in a 3-match home bilateral ODI series – Bangladesh’s first-ever bilateral series win against Sri Lanka.
24. In March 2022, Tamim played a crucial role in helping Bangladesh win its first ODI series in South Africa. He was the highest run-getter (113 runs) in the series on either side, as Bangladesh scored a memorable 2-1 series win. Bangladesh’s win in the first match of the 3-match series was their first win against South Africa in an international cricket match held in South Africa.
25. In June 2022, he announced his retirement from the T20I format. In July 2023, he announced his retirement from all international cricket only to withdraw it a few hours later – after a meeting with Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh.
26. Tamim holds the record of being the first Bangladeshi batter to reach 6,000, 7,000, and 8,000 runs in the ODI format. He also holds the record of being the first Bangladeshi batter to reach 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000, and 14,000 international runs (across all 3 formats – Tests, ODIs, and T20Is).
27. As of July 2023, he had held the global record for scoring the most runs on a single ground in the ODI format – 2,853 runs in 84 innings at the Shere Bangla National Stadium located in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
28. As of July 2023, for Bangladesh at the senior international level, Tamim had scored the most ODI runs (8,313), scored the most international runs across all formats (15,148), recorded the most ODI centuries (14), and struck the most international centuries across all formats (25).
29. For Bangladesh, as of July 2023, he had also played the 2nd-most test matches (70), played the 2nd-most ODI matches (241), scored the 2nd-most test match runs (5,134), scored the joint 2nd-most test centuries (10), recorded the 2nd-highest individual ODI score (158 runs), scored the 3rd-most T20I runs (1,701), recorded the 3rd-highest individual test match score (206 runs), played the 4th-most T20I matches (74), and played the 4th-most international matches across all formats (385).

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