Dashing
batsman Tamim Iqbal has been named Wisden Cricket magazine’s Test player of the
year. While ICC omitted his name from the final list of the Test cricketer of
the award list, the Wisden Cricketer Magazine seemed to have other ideas. Tamim’s
majestic form over the last one year earned him this honour.
The
award is calculated by the marks out of 10 that the Wisden Cricketer's
reporters give each player at every Test and is the second successive time a
Bangladeshi player has won the award after Shakib Al Hasan won last year.
Tamim
scored 837 runs at 59.78 in seven Tests during 2010, despite Bangladesh
failing to win a single Test during the year. But the bat of Tamim was on song
consistently. He started the year with a bang by scoring a swashbuckling 151
against India
this year at Dhaka and his bat continued to fetch runs
for Bangladesh
in the home series against England
as well.
In England ,
Tamim’s bat boomed again. He became the first Bangladeshi to score a hundred at
Lord's. While the others found it tough to cope with the English attack, Tamim
was found well-equipped against the English pace and spin attack. He created
history by becoming the first Bangladeshi to score a hundred at Lord's and
followed it up with another dashing hundred at Manchester .
Tamim
defeated the likes of Sachin Tendulkar who has just climbed to the number one
spot in the ICC Test batsman ranking after eight years, Virender Sehwag who has
won the ICC Test player of the year this year, Graeme Swann, Simon Katich and
the likes of Dale Steyn. The ICC, who has been accused of being too biased,
couldn’t really judge the merit of Tamim’s performance over the last one year
while Wisden Cricketer Magazine seems to have an unbiased judgment.
Such
awards are very encouraging and an indication that Bangladesh
cricket is changing. Some high profile cricketers are in the making for Bangladesh .
This is an answer to those who are always vociferous about Bangladesh 's
omission from Test cricket.
Thank
You
Faisal
Caesar
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