Tamim capitalises on brief DPL period before SL Tests

Bangladesh star player Tamim Iqbal has thoroughly capitalised on the opportunity of playing a few Dhaka Premier League matches ahead of the two-match Test series at home against Sri Lanka next month.

The left-hander continued his impressive form to hit a consecutive second hundred after returning from the South Africa tour. The Prime Bank opener struck 13 fours and half-a-dozen maximums on his way to 137 off 132 balls against Gazi Group Cricketers in the last league match at BKSP today.

After Tamim reached his 21st List A hundred off 122 balls, the ODI captain of Bangladesh unleashed further to strike six boundaries out of the 10 deliveries he faced.

Before walking back to pavilion, Tamim combined with Anamul Haque Bijoy to a whopping 215-run stand after amassing an unbeaten 232-run partnership in the previous game against Rupganj Tigers on April 26. Bijoy, in scintillating form this season, would be gutted to have missed three figures mark by four runs.

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Bijoy has tallied 1138 runs so far with nine fifties and three tons, which takes him 221 runs ahead of the second-placed Tom Moody, former Australia player, who scored 917 runs for Worcestershire in 1991.  

Prime Bank scored 355 for seven in their innings.