Siddons to stay until WC

Mashrafee retained as captain, BCB gives green light for day-night Test
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to extend the contract of Australian cricket coach Jamie Siddons until the World Cup 2011. The decision was made at a meeting of its Board of Directors on Wednesday.
The BCB directors have given their president Lt General Sina Ibn Jamali the responsibility to form a three-member committee to settle the new terms and conditions with Siddons after his current term expires in November.
Siddons joined Bangladesh in November 2007, replacing his Australian compatriot Dav Whatmore. Bangladesh have played 12 Tests under him and won two and drew one of them. They have won 15 one-day international matches out of 43 since he began the job.
Bangladesh did not win any Twenty20 International matches during his term. A recent report on his skin cancer did not have any bearing on the BCB decision.
Pace bowler Mashrafee bin Murtaza and all-rounder Sakib al Hasan have been retained as the captain and the vice-captain of the national cricket team, albeit only for the five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe in October-November.
Mashrafee is currently undergoing six-week rehabilitation after he had surgery on his both knees in Australia last month. Sakib is also taking physiotherapy in Australia for a groin injury.
‘They will continue in the roles subject to their fitness,’ BCB spokesman Jalal Yunus told reporters after the meeting.
The meeting also agreed to a proposal of the England and Wales Cricket Board for a day-night Test match when they will tour England next year.
The day-night Test match, which will be the first ever in the history of the game if staged, will, however, need the approval of the ICC, said BCB spokesman Yunus.
Bangladesh will tour England in May next year for two Test matches and three ODIs.
The BCB meeting, which was adjourned until September 14, appointed Shafiuddin Ahmed as its new chief financial officer. The BCB, however, could not make any decision about its next chief executive officers.
The Institute of Business Administration of the Dhaka University upon a request from the BCB has made a shortlist of five candidates from over 60 applicants for the CEO post. They are former CEO Mahmudur Rahman, former Citycell official Intekhab Mahmud, former cricketer Mainul Haque, managing director of Exiom Technologies Rezwan Faruq and expatriate Bangladeshi Emdad Ehsan.
Yunus said they will form a specialised committee to interview the shortlisted candidates further. A few other candidates who are not on the shortlist may also be interviewed, he said.

Courtesy of NewAgebd