Bangladesh national team head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe must watch the important domestic league matches if he is to act as a national selector, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Monday. Hathurusinghe looks all but certain to be included in a completely revamped selection panel that the BCB is set to introduce reportedly to fulfill the personal desire of the Sri Lankan coach.
\nWhile Hathurusinghe has always enjoyed some kind of authority over the selectors he did not have the voting power that denied him an opportunity to include all the players of his choice.
\nIt was argued that before getting included in the selection panel Hathurusinghe must be in a position from where he can judge all possible contenders by watching them perform in domestic leagues.
\nThe coach preferred to remain in leave during the last Bangladesh Premier League and the ongoing Dhaka Premier League, which deprived him of the chance.
\n\u2018I want the coach to watch domestic matches. Whenever he has time he should watch cricket played in our country instead of sitting around,\u2019 said Nazmul said in Mirpur on Monday.
\n\u2018In fact I want all selectors to be involved more with domestic cricket and they should be aware of all the upcoming cricketers coming through the processes.
\n\u2018I don\u2019t want that when a name of a new player is in discussion coach should not act as if he does not know him at all,\u2019 he said.
\nIt was reported that Hathurusinghe took an advantage of national team\u2019s recent success by obtaining more leave than his contract permits.
\nAccording to his contract, he is permitted to take just one month leave in a year while he already enjoyed a leave of two months in 2016.
\nHe left Dhaka on March 30 after the ICC World Twenty20 and will not return until June 1.
\nWhile speaking to reporters, BCB president Nazmul admitted that he is unaware of Hathurusinghe\u2019s leave clause but promised to look into the matter.
\nNazmul invited the technical committee members at his office on Monday to take their advice on the proposed restructuring of the selection committee.
\nThe BCB working committee already proposed a seven-member selection panel comprised of four regular selectors, national team head coach, manager and cricket operations chief.
\nNazmul was looking forward to know the opinion of the technical committee in this regard as some of its members had the opportunity to work as national selectors.
\n\u2018We have already got the recommendations of working committee. Now we got the opinion of technical committee members,\u2019 said Nazmul.
\n\u2018We will discuss those in BCB meeting before making the final decision,\u2019 he said, adding that the inclusion of national team manager in the selection panel, another controversial move, is not final.
\n\u2018Whether the manager will be included or not is yet to come forward as a proposal for consideration,\u2019 said Nazmul.
\nAsked why the restructuring of selection panel was needed at a time when the team is doing well, Nazmul said they took the initiative to make the process \u2018more beautiful.\u2019
\n\u2018I think our selectors did a fine job,\u2019 he said. \u2018But we want to make it more beautiful. Presently we have three selectors. We want to add another person and coach, who was also part of the selection committee in the past.\u2019
\nThe BCB president added that he took advice on some other issues from technical committee members, which includes former cricketers Shafiqul Haque, Mainul Haque, Ishtiaq Ahmed, ASM Faruque, Jahangir Shah, Athar Ali Khan.
\n\u2018The issues included bowling coach, the development of Test cricket and the standard of umpiring in lower-tier,\u2019 said the BCB president.<\/p>\n

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