Tamim saved me from Virat- Imrul
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Former Bangladesh opener Imrul Kayes thanked Tamim Iqbal for helping him out from Virat Kohli’s aggression on the field.
Imrul revealed during a live Facebook session with Cricfrenzy on that he was quite surprised to see that Kohli was sledging him from the slips considering he was with him with the Indian skipper during a one-month training session in Australia in 2007.
‘’In 2007, I received an scholarship and moved to Australia and got a chance to practice with a team there. Four or five of Indian players along with Virat Kohli was there also. They went there after winning the Under-19 World Cup. We practiced there for about a month,’’ said Imrul during the show on Wednesday.
‘’As we were from the neighboring country we hangout for sometimes, we practiced as a pair there. Australians see us, Asians in a slightly different way. They didn't give us bowlers to bat properly. We had to play against the machine. When I used to bat, the coach there used to give him as my partner. Then he used to say that we haven't come this far from home to play against machines bowlers. We have a lot of machines in our country. This is how we used to discuss. People in our country do watch Hindi movies or not many chit-chat we used to have after the end of the practice at that time. In this way, I knew him from that time,’’ he said.
‘’When I joined the national team my first game with him was in 2011. He was sledging me in the first game. I was surprised at that time. We spent a month together and he came to the field and started to sledge me. I didn't say anything. I told Tamim. Later Tamim sledged him so bad. Later Virat stopped. You know, Tamim can do these very well, he is very aggressive on the field. Since then, Virat Kohli has not treated me badly ever,’’ he said.
‘’In the Fatullah Test he[ Kohli] has sledged almost everyone but he didn't say a word to me. Also, the last time when we went to play a Test series in India, he used abusive language to more or less everyone but didn't say a word to me,’’ he said adding that he feels good when Kohli comes to him after so many long years.
‘’He is at his level. He's a legend player, we don't have the match with him. One thing I feel good about him that being such a great player he still remembers me. He comes and speaks on his own.
