Fahim Iqbal

A sports enthusiast, die-hard fan of Real Madrid. Studying BBA at the University of Dhaka! 🇧🇩

Hala Madrid! 🤍 Siempre! ✊

[Mehedi Hassan @MHassanFootball]

Honor.

[Fahim Iqbal @ifahim75]

@shehreen13abed8 calma calma!

[zoé @luvbellinghm]

he’s actually the funniest person ever

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

Greatest t20i inning ever? Lasith Malinga had never been hit for more than one six in a T20 innings by anybody. That night Marlon Samuels hit him for five. Malinga went for 54 off four overs, the worst figures of his entire T20 international career, and 39 of those runs came off eleven balls to one man. Only the real ones know how magnificent that innings was.

Look at where West Indies actually were. Fourteen for two after the powerplay, the fourth-worst score at that stage in the history of T20 internationals. Thirty-two for two after ten overs, the fifth-worst. Chris Gayle, of all people, had defended his way to 3 off 16. Samuels himself was 26 off 37. In a World Cup final, against the best bowling attack in the tournament, on a surface Cricinfo called among the tackiest and trickiest produced.

Then he hit the first six, and the press box glass at the Premadasa is thick enough to shut out a full house, and they felt it anyway.

He had planned it. Samuels said afterwards that he had already played Malinga in his mind the night before, so he decided to take him on. And in the 13th over Malinga went for five yorkers, nailed two, and missed the other three by a combined distance of about a foot. Samuels, sitting deep in his crease, hit two of them over the leg side and one over extra cover.

West Indies scored 105 in the last ten overs, which was more than Sri Lanka managed in their entire innings. Ajantha Mendis took 4 for 12 in that final and it counted for nothing. Eight sixes were hit in the whole match and Samuels hit six of them. He made 78 out of a team total of 137.

Cricinfo called it simply the best Twenty20 international innings ever seen, and a reader called it the 281 of T20 cricket, which is about right.

It is a shame T20 was not celebrated much back then. The occasion, the opposition, the circumstances, and a man who had decided the night before that he was going after the best death bowler alive.

What a spectacle it must have been.

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

Whatever the result of this Test and the series, Bangladesh cricket will graduate onto the next level. Shoriful Islam is leading a spectacular comeback here
#AusvsBan #BanvsAus

[Lucas Navarrete @LucasNavarreteM]

Real Madrid TV's video for José Mourinho is an absolute banger.

[zainab abbas @ZAbbasOfficial]

Peak BD cricket moment, winning in Aus v Aus, redefining what success is, full admiration for this side! Superb bowling & what a 100 by Tanzid Hassan 👌

[Ashwin 🇮🇳 @ashwinravi99]

Damn good from Bangladesh and this reiterates the value of designated test centres.

The conditions in Darwin have caught the ausies by surprise. #AusvBan

[Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @realmadriden]

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @BERNARDOCSILVA!

[Gonzalo García @gonzalo7garcia_]

Desde siempre y por siempre.
Eternamente agradecido.

¡Hala Madrid!

[🇽🇰🇯🇲 @C4MAV1NGA]

Random Vinicius plays when Real Madrid are tied / losing in 25-26

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Lucas Navarrete @LucasNavarreteM]

Don't know why the reactions to the Cucurella signing have been this negative. He is immediately your starting LB and you desperately needed someone for that spot.

Did you think Nuno Mendes was walking through that door?

At that price, Cucurella is the best option Madrid had.

[Mehedi Hassan @MHassanFootball]

Signing players left and right without notice. I don’t recognize my club anymore and I absolutely love it.

[Wisden @WisdenCricket]

🗣️ “He bowls absolute rockets” 🚀

23-year-old Nahid Rana ripped through Australia's middle order with a hostile spell of 4-41 in the first ODI in Mirpur 🇧🇩

#BANvAUS

[KFC Big Bash League @BBL]

Could we see Bangladesh speedster Nahid Rana in #BBL16... 👀

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

My love for fast bowling wakes up all over again whenever I watch Nahid Rana bowl. And I will say it again. This Rana is one of a kind.
Special, because no Bangladeshi bowler is or ever was like him. There might be someone better out there. But there is no one like him.

This fellow bowls relentlessly at searing pace. He extracts lift off the surface. Tall, a beautiful action, and he delivers exactly where he wants, every time.

So here is the official announcement. Bangladesh have unearthed something genuinely special. They can flex it all they want. But they should also stay hopeful and cross every finger that this man never has to endure a serious injury.

[Daniel Cherny @DanielCherny]

Australia being bounced out by a 6 ft 5 Bangladeshi bowling high 140s on a green seamer. Bizarro world.

[Ian Raphael Bishop @irbishi]

Nahid Rana bowling some serious heat vs Australia.