The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s cricket operation chairman Akram Khan on Tuesday said that he was against making wholesale changes in the national set-up going against opinion of the board’s president Nazmul Hasan. Nazmul on several occasions hinted at making drastic changes in the national set-up, including the management group, after the Tigers had showed a dismal performance in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament.
Before Nazmul left the country in the past week to attend the ICC meeting, he had said they would decided any changes after they would receive two reports the manager and the coat of the team were supposed to submit to the board in seven days.
The reports are yet to be submitted but the Tiger’s manager for the tournament Akram on Tuesday said that there would be nothing of the sort in the report.
‘There will be nothing like that in my report.’ Akram told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
Although it is the job of selectors to make the ultimate call, ‘We need to see where we need to work, how disciplined the team was and what its attitude was, etc,’ Akram said.
‘As for management, the board will make the decision after it reads the report,’ he said.
‘After each series, the manager and the coach file reports on the overall performance. This time, it is important because we failed to perform to our expectations,’ Akram said.
‘We need to know where we lacked and what we really need to do. This is what will be in the report,’ he said.
Akram said that the report was being delayed as the head coach Shane Jurgensen and others on the management staff were on holidays. The report would be submitted after they joined work soon.
‘As the coach, the physio and the trainer are on holidays, the report has as yet not been prepared,’ Akram said explaining the delay in the submission of the report what was to be submitted in seven days.
‘It will take some more time as they
are out of the country. After we receive the report, I will give to the president and the board will later decide the next course of action,’ he added.
The BCB president said that, if required, the board would go for a new setup for the Twenty20 version that could also see a new coach.
Akram added that the BCB was planning for the next World Cup and looking forward to making the best us of the time left.
‘India is expected to come in June. After that, the Zimbabwe A team will arrive in Bangladesh,’ Akram said.
‘We will travel to West Indies and the Bangladesh A team will also travel there…. We will also play some matches there although nothing has been decided,’ he said.
-With New Age input
