• Tamim Iqbal becomes Bangladesh player to arrive.
•  8000 runs in ODIs, and generally speaking.
• 10th opener to penetrate the milestone.

Tamim Iqbal arrived at the achievement during Bangladesh’s most memorable ODI against Zimbabwe when he moved to 57.

With a late stopped wide of third man off Sikandar Raza in the 24th over.

Former Bangladesh Captain, who scored up his 54th ODI fifty, is on a hot streak both as commander and opening hitter.

He was named Player-of-the-Series against West Indies last month, driving his side to a 3-0 range of the ODI series.

He was the main run-scorer in the three ODIs scoring 117 runs at a normal of 58.50.

Tamim has driven Bangladesh to six out of seven ODI series wins since he began his extremely durable captaincy reign in January 2021.

Having begun his vocation in 2007, Tamim is inarguably Bangladesh’s most noteworthy opener across designs.

He is the second most elevated run-getter in Tests behind Mushfiqur Rahim, who barely beat Tamim to turn into the principal Bangladesh hitter to arrive at 5000 runs in the longest configuration of the game.

Tamim, notwithstanding, is the first to 5000, 6000, 7000 and 8000 ODI runs for Bangladesh.

Tweet by BCB:

Congratulations Tamim Iqbal

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First Bangladeshi and 33rd batsman in history to reach 8000 runs in One Day International cricket.#BCB #Cricket #ZIMvBAN pic.twitter.com/2pBNHofeex

— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) August 5, 2022

The last 1000 runs took Tamim just 23 innings – two years, because of the absence of ODIs in Bangladesh’s timetable of late – and included two centuries. Strangely, out of the nine openers who have made 8,000 runs, six of them are left-handers, Tamim being the most recent one.

Tamim gave Bangladesh a superb beginning in the primary ODI against Zimbabwe sewing 119 runs for the initial wicket close by Litton Das. He tumbled to Raza for 62.

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