- Joined
- Oct 2, 2004
- Runs
- 217,980
Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] has no immediate plan to relieve Mahmudullah from his role as Bangladesh T20I captain.
Reports in different media outlets claimed of the BCB thinking to remove Mahmudullah from the role at the back of Bangladesh T20Is team’s failure in the just concluded tour of West Indies.
However, BCB president Nazmul Hasan informed the board did not have any discussion of such in the 5th Meeting of the BCB Board of Directors held at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday.
Nazmul believes prompt changes does not guarantee to lift the performance overnight and that it is rather important to set a long-term.
“There was no discussion on Mahmudullah’s captaincy [in T20Is]. There is no guarantee that sudden changes will improve the performance of the team. We need to think of long-term. We need to have discussion first irrespective of whatever we do. The team has not returned yet [from West Indies]. We will have discussion once they are back,” said Nazmul to the media on Sunday.
Discussion of removing Mahmudullah as the T20I has been wide and strong more because the cricketer himself is underperforming, a situation similar to that of Mominul Haque before he left Bangladesh Test team captaincy last month.
Bangladesh national team will now sharply concentrate on the shortest format of the game with the ICC T20 World Cup scheduled to take place in Australia in October-November this year. Before that Bangladesh has tour of Zimbabwe in July-August, the Asia Cup T20 tournament in August-September and a Tri-Nation T20I tournament involving Pakistan and hosts New Zealand ahead of the T20 World Cup.
“It is a tough question to answer [that if the board is pleased with Mahmdullah’s captaincy]. We did not have any issue even with Mominul’s captaincy but the problem was he was not being able to perform. We are very happy of how Tamim [Iqbal] is leading the one-day international team. There is discussion on Mahmudullah because he himself is not being able to perform. That’s the main problem. We will sit with him once he is back. I think everything will be fine once he starts scoring runs,” Nazmul explained.
“Firstly, the World Cup is in Australia. It is a tough call. We are a weaker side so captaincy change will not make a drastic change in the team performance. You cannot bring a drastic change with just two three months of time in hand. They are busy playing, there is very little break. We will have a discussion on the plan heading to the [T20] world cup once the team is back in Dhaka,” the BCB boss added.
Nazmul pressed on the need of rather preparing the team for the world event.
“We should rather work on preparing them to match the condition in Australia. It is a 42-day-long tour. We will play two practice matches and there is a Tri-Nation T20I series against two good opponents [New Zealand and Pakistan]. We are doing our best,” said Nazmul.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/cricket/2022/07/17/bcb-has-no-immediate-plan-to-remove-mahmudullah
Reports in different media outlets claimed of the BCB thinking to remove Mahmudullah from the role at the back of Bangladesh T20Is team’s failure in the just concluded tour of West Indies.
However, BCB president Nazmul Hasan informed the board did not have any discussion of such in the 5th Meeting of the BCB Board of Directors held at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday.
Nazmul believes prompt changes does not guarantee to lift the performance overnight and that it is rather important to set a long-term.
“There was no discussion on Mahmudullah’s captaincy [in T20Is]. There is no guarantee that sudden changes will improve the performance of the team. We need to think of long-term. We need to have discussion first irrespective of whatever we do. The team has not returned yet [from West Indies]. We will have discussion once they are back,” said Nazmul to the media on Sunday.
Discussion of removing Mahmudullah as the T20I has been wide and strong more because the cricketer himself is underperforming, a situation similar to that of Mominul Haque before he left Bangladesh Test team captaincy last month.
Bangladesh national team will now sharply concentrate on the shortest format of the game with the ICC T20 World Cup scheduled to take place in Australia in October-November this year. Before that Bangladesh has tour of Zimbabwe in July-August, the Asia Cup T20 tournament in August-September and a Tri-Nation T20I tournament involving Pakistan and hosts New Zealand ahead of the T20 World Cup.
“It is a tough question to answer [that if the board is pleased with Mahmdullah’s captaincy]. We did not have any issue even with Mominul’s captaincy but the problem was he was not being able to perform. We are very happy of how Tamim [Iqbal] is leading the one-day international team. There is discussion on Mahmudullah because he himself is not being able to perform. That’s the main problem. We will sit with him once he is back. I think everything will be fine once he starts scoring runs,” Nazmul explained.
“Firstly, the World Cup is in Australia. It is a tough call. We are a weaker side so captaincy change will not make a drastic change in the team performance. You cannot bring a drastic change with just two three months of time in hand. They are busy playing, there is very little break. We will have a discussion on the plan heading to the [T20] world cup once the team is back in Dhaka,” the BCB boss added.
Nazmul pressed on the need of rather preparing the team for the world event.
“We should rather work on preparing them to match the condition in Australia. It is a 42-day-long tour. We will play two practice matches and there is a Tri-Nation T20I series against two good opponents [New Zealand and Pakistan]. We are doing our best,” said Nazmul.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/cricket/2022/07/17/bcb-has-no-immediate-plan-to-remove-mahmudullah
why he wasn't being promoted?
