Mahmud to continue as asstt coach

Former skipper Khaled Mahmud will continue as the assistant coach of the national cricket team despite two recent high-profile appointments, said a senior official of Bangladesh Cricket Board.
The fate of Mahmud was hanging in the balance after the BCB appointed South African Lance Klusener and ex-British baseball player Julien Fountain respectively as the bowling and fielding coaches.
However, a meeting of the BCB’s technical evaluation committee on Thursday decided to retain the services of Mahmud, who has been an assistant to head coach Jamie Siddons for more than a year.
‘The appointments of Klusener and Fountain do not necessarily mean that we have to remove Sujan [Mahmud]. They [Klusener and Fountain] are specialised coaches just like Champaka [Ramanayeke] and [Ruwan] Kalpage had been,’ said Jalal Yunus, chairman of the media committee.
Jalal, who is also a member of the technical committee, said they have also sorted out technical details of Klusener’s agreement and hoped that he would join in the first week of September.
‘He had some issues about his facilities which we agreed. Hopefully he will now agree and will join soon,’ said Jalal.
The technical committee also recommended for retaining Tanjeeb Ahsan Saad as manager of the side until the World Cup, ignoring an application by former skipper Habibul Bashar for the post.
Jalal said they thought this was not the perfect time for Bashar to be a manager and that they have other plan to take his services.
‘He is still young and very much active in the game. We have a plan to use the recent past former skippers like him and Pilot [Khaled Mashud],’ said the BCB official.

Courtesy of NewAge