OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.15pm.
BANGLADESH will choose a new national cricket coach from either South Africa or Australia following the controversial departure of West Indian Gordon Greenidge, reports said on Friday.
“We are expecting the new coach either from South Africa or Australia,” Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury was quoted as saying. Chowdhury said Bangladeshi officials had contacted the cricket boards of both countries about the new coach.
Apart from coaching the Bangladesh national team, the new coach will also work for the development of cricket at the regional level, Chowdhury said after attending meetings of the executive board and general body of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in Britain.
Chowdhury, also a deputy minister in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s government, was re-elected as an ICC executive board member. Greenidge’s contact with the BCB expired on June 30 but he was sacked last month just before Bangladesh’s historic World Cup victory against Pakistan after a reported rift with BCB officials.
The former West Indian batsman coached the national team to their 1997 ICC trophy victory in Malaysia ensuring their their participation for the first time in this year’s just completed World Cup.–AFP