Khulna Tigers' Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladeshi batsman to enter the seven thousand run club in Twenty20 after hitting a 37-ball 44 in the Bangladesh Premier League against the Chattogram Challengers at the city’s Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Friday.

The veteran left arm campaigner, who was just five runs away from the milestone, achieved the feat in their final tie of the Chattogram phase of the competition, smacking an eye-popping boundary.

Now he is standing on 7039 runs in 243 innings at a strike rate of 116.96 alongside a below-average 32.14 average in the shortest version of cricket.

In the process, he struck four hundreds along with 45 fifties, and his highest score was an unbeaten 141 in the 2019 edition of BPL in the outfits of the Comilla Victorians.

Among all the players, across the nation, the southpaw is leading in terms of hitting the most hundreds, followed by Najmul Hossain Shanto, who bagged two.