The Bangladesh Cricket Board is silent about the national head coach Shane Jurgensen after he resigned on Monday that took officials by surprise.
Jurgensen is expected to return to Dhaka today to complete his resignation formalities and serve a notice period that will end in June with a three-match one-day international series against India.
The cricket board, immediately after Jurgensen had resigned, said that it was ready to talk with the coach about the decision which officials believed was spurred by emotion.
Jurgensen, contracted until the World Cup 2015, pointed finger at some board officials who made comments regarding his fate in recent times.
As a result, officials keeping mum till the arrival of Jurgensen, saving them a chance to try to convince him to change his mind.
The national captain Mushfiqur Rahim was not also allowed to speak to the media on the issue to avoid further controversy.
Mushfiq dodged the media at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium where he had an individual training session in the morning and declined comments in a programme at the Westin Dhaka hotel in the afternoon.
‘I was told by the board not to make comments about Shane Jurgensen’s resignation. I can say nothing more about the matter,’ Mushfiq said.
‘All I can say is that if Shane changes his decision, it will be good for Bangladesh,’ he said.
Mushfiq said that he was going to sit with Jurgensen personally and hoped that he would change his mind and stay back.
Jurgensen joined the Tigers as the bowling coach in October 2011 before he was given the job of the interim head coach in a series against West Indies in 2012 after the resignation of Englishman Richard Pybus.
He became an instant success as Bangladesh claimed the one-day international series 3–2 and gave the Caribbeans a run for their money in the Test series.
‘We are passing a tough time. When hard time comes, it comes from all directions,’ Mushfiq said.
‘It is a little bit challenging. All our players should try to perform what we have been doing for two years,’ he said.
Mushfiq was waiting for the board chief Nazmul Hasan to return from Singapore as it would bring an official end to the Jurgesen chapter either by retaining him in service or discharging him.
Jurgensen, who was made the full-time coach of the Tigers n in February for two years to build a team for the World Cup 2015, e-mailed his resignation to the board’s cricket operations chief Akram Khan.
Akram, who on Monday criticised his BCB colleagues for making comments about the coach after the ICC World Twenty20 debacle, also looked very defensive about Jurgensen.
‘We will do whatever is good for the Bangladesh cricket,’ Akram said. ‘I cannot say anything at the moment as the whole things depend on the board president.’
‘I did not speak to him on phone after receiving his resignation and hope to sit with him once he arrives,’ he said.
Corey Richard, the batting and fielding coach of the Tigers, however, said that he doubted if Jurgensen would reconsider his decision.
‘I am not fully sure whether he will reconsider his decision and stay back,’ Richard told New Age on Tuesday.
‘He has been thinking about his future for quite some time and he went on to live in Australia with his family and later made the decision,’ he said.
-With New Age input
