Bangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal was kept silent with the bat in the three-match series against Afghanistan.
However, more than below-par scoring, it has been the left-hander's struggle that is being spoken about the most.
In all the three games, Tamim fell prey to young Afghan left-arm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Farooqi, playing only his fourth ODI, kept Tamim cornered throughout the series and the dismissals were of similar fashion.
The experience is the first for opener Tamim.
Since his international debut in 2007, this is the first time the southpaw lost his wicket in all three matches of the series to one bowler.
All credit goes to Farooqi for putting the Bangladesh ODI skipper in such a situation.
Interestingly, it was Tamim who had signed Farooqi as an overseas player to play for his team Minister Group Dhaka in the recently concluded Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 2022.
Tamim perished to Farooqi to LBWs in the first two games while in the third, at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the port city Monday, the stumps behind the Bangladesh batter got rattled.
Speared full into the stumps, Tamim went to work it to the on side, getting forward.
But the ball, swinging a bit in, with help of the early sporting surface, found the gap between bat and pad.
The previous two dismissals were similar – the ball at fuller length on the on side swung into the left-handed batter.
Tamim had come into the series after a brilliant display in the BPL.
The left-hander had finished as the third highest scorer in the six-team tournament – with 407 runs in nine games at an average of 58.14 and 132.57 strike rate.
Tamim’s journey in the tournament included one century and four half-centuries.
However, 21-year old Farooqi denied 32-year old Tamim from continuing his purple patch and restricted him to scores of eight, 12 and 11 runs in the series.