On This Day in 2010, Tamim Iqbal etched his name in history by scoring a magnificent century at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground.
The first Bangladeshi batsman to register his name in the 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝’𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬.
With a flurry of 15 boundaries and two sixes, he reached the milestone in just 94 deliveries!
The English bowlers tried everything, but Tamim was in a league of his own!
Tamim asked an attendant whether there was a way of putting his name on the Lord’s honours board. “There should be one for the fifties as well,” said Tamim. But the attendant said that one has to get a hundred to
put his name on the board.
Tamim, this time, didn’t miss out. He struck a flurry of boundaries and made the England bowling attack that had James Anderson, Steven Finn and Tim Bresnan look like an ordinary one.
Tamim raced to a hundred from 87 in space of four balls. His celebration was spectacular as well. He ran towards the balcony and gestured towards the attendant to put his name on the honours board.
He brought up the hundred off only 94 deliveries, the fastest on the venue in 20 years. The innings involved 15 fours and two sixes. Tamim became the first Bangladeshi batter and second Bangladeshi to register his name on the honours board.
Though Bangladesh lost the match, Tamim’s batting was the shining light in the ruins. It was an emotional hundred as well for him. “My (late) father was an ardent follower of the game. Whenever Lord’s was shown on TV, he always told us, ‘Look, that’s where cricket began’. I really missed him after the hundred.”
