Steve Rhodes not to continue as Bangladesh Head Coach [Update Post#23]

[UN talkz]

Bangladesh have confirmed the appointment of Steve Rhodes as the new men’s team head coach.

The former England wicket-keeper/batsman takes over eight months after Chandika Hathurusingha's unexpected resignation in October 2017 and will be contracted until the end of the World T20 in 2020.

Since Hathurusingha's departure to take over as head coach of his native Sri Lanka, Bangladesh have been without a permanent head coach, with Courtney Walsh, primarily appointed as a bowling coach, taking charge in the interim during a tricky period for the Tigers.

During a 23-year professional career, Rhodes played 11 Tests and nine ODIs for England, while enjoying a successful county career with Yorkshire and Worcestershire.

In recent years it is as director of cricket at Worcestershire, a role he occupied from 2006, that he has become most respected, developing a young, homegrown squad and being used by the ECB as a development coach.

His long tenure at Worcestershire ended in controversial circumstances last year when he was sacked after failing to report the arrest and charge of one of his players. When the matter was investigated he was removed by Worcestershire and as head coach of England’s team for the Under 19 World Cup.

Well used to underdog status and to working hard to improve a relatively small pool of players at Worcestershire, Rhodes may feel he is ideally suited to the task as he begins his new challenge.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/708164

 

[Varun]

Remains to be seen how long he lasts before he leaves.

Bangladesh have a tendency to spend longer looking for a coach than the actual tenures of the coaches themselves.

 

[MenInG]

Bangladesh have a very passionate Cricket culture - they will need Rhodes to be given space to do his work or he will leave

 

[aloo paratha]

Lol he'll rip his hair out after seeing some results

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Seems like he is quite experienced.It’s good that Bangladesh is getting a coach used to conditions at the WC next yearz

 

[Saj]

I don't see this lasting long.

Fiery coach and a fiery cricketing nation ☺

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Neil McKenzie appointed as Bangladesh batting consultant

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday appointed former South African batsman Neil McKenzie as their new batting consultant to help shape up their woeful batting unit.

Bangladesh failed to score 200 runs in any of their last six Test innings and were bowled out for 43 in an innings during the ongoing series against the West Indies.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in a statement said McKenzie, 42, who played 58 Tests, 64 one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals for South Africa, would work with the Bangladesh team until the World Cup 2019 in England and Wales.

He is expected to join the team in Guyana on July 24 during the three-match ODI series against West Indies, the BCB said.

McKenzie, who acted as South Africa’s batting consultant twice following his retirement in 2009, would replace former Sri Lankan batsman Thilan Samaraweera, whose contract was not renewed after the ICC Champions Trophy in Britain last year.

High performance coach Simon Helmot acted as interim batting coach in the last few series but under his guidance the team’s batting failed to match up to expectations.

Bangladesh appointed Englishman Steve Rhodes as their new head coach in June and named South African Ryan Cook as the new fielding coach earlier this month.

 

[MenInG]

Reports in the media indicate that Steve Rhodes has been sacked as Bangladesh Head Coach after a review of the team's progress during the World Cup.

Also:

Batting coach Neil McKenzie won’t be touring SL due to personal reasons.

BCB didn’t renew contracts of Courtney Walsh, Sunil Joshi and physio Thihan Chandramohan.

Only people remaining in coaching staff are Ryan Cook and Shrinivas Chandrasekaran.

 

[szundercover]

Pakistan should rope in neil McKenzie as batting coach for Pakistan.

 

[Savak]

Reports in the media indicate that Steve Rhodes has been sacked as Bangladesh Head Coach after a review of the team's progress during the World Cup.

Also:

Batting coach Neil McKenzie won’t be touring SL due to personal reasons.

BCB didn’t renew contracts of Courtney Walsh, Sunil Joshi and physio Thihan Chandramohan.

Only people remaining in coaching staff are Ryan Cook and Shrinivas Chandrasekaran.

Lol everyone commented and propagated on Bangladesh impressive show in the WC and their own board feels otherwise.

 

[MenInG]

Lol everyone commented and propagated on Bangladesh impressive show in the WC and their own board feels otherwise.

High standards - maybe a lesson there somewhere for others!

 

[Chokli]

Lol, were Bangladesh hoping to reach the Semi Finals or actually win the damn thing?

No coach will be able to make it happen.

 

[Justcrazy]

I think they should try for Tom Moody.

 

[BaankeJi]

Lol, were Bangladesh hoping to reach the Semi Finals or actually win the damn thing?

No coach will be able to make it happen.

They wanted to win against India or Pakistan.
Also, they were not happy about their game against Sri Lanka which was rained out.

Rhodes had to go.

 

[Chokli]

They wanted to win against India or Pakistan.
Also, they were not happy about their game against Sri Lanka which was rained out.

Rhodes had to go.

Unfortunately the toss decided the games.

 

[latecut]

Such high standards to evaluate the coach. Hopefully BCB will evaluate its players with similar high yardsticks and drop most of them except Shakib.

 

[Savak]

High standards - maybe a lesson there somewhere for others!

Am reading that the pcb is considering extending the contract of Mickey Arthur till the next T20 World Cup in 2020. Apparently the PCB feels there are no other options

 

[szundercover]

Am reading that the pcb is considering extending the contract of Mickey Arthur till the next T20 World Cup in 2020. Apparently the PCB feels there are no other options

Will be a good decision by pcb.

 

[Titan24]

I am not sure why so sudden and quick changes. Most of these personnel were appointed just a year ago and BD has done pretty decently during that time. I also cant think of many blunders they made in team selections, reading the pitch, strategies etc unlike Mickey and co, so a bit surprising as other coaches can also just do the basics right and can be good with their strategies, other than that they cant do much.

 

[Titan24]

Am reading that the pcb is considering extending the contract of Mickey Arthur till the next T20 World Cup in 2020. Apparently the PCB feels there are no other options

No other options? Options are searched for they dont come in a platter. By this theory there will never be other options unless we are waiting for someone to be born as the people related to cricket who can be in for contention are already in the world and they wont suddenly change in an year.

 

[szundercover]

steve rhodes can be a good replacement for mickey arthur,he should be roped in as a replacement for mickey along with neil McKenzie as batting coach.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Am reading that the pcb is considering extending the contract of Mickey Arthur till the next T20 World Cup in 2020. Apparently the PCB feels there are no other options

Good one, but need to bring in Saqlain or Mushtaq back as Spin consultant and develop atleast one or two new spin bowlers as the next worldcup is in India

 

[MenInG]

Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to discontinue with national team head coach Steve Rhodes. The board high ups in a meeting in England following Bangladesh’s last game in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 had come to the decision.

BCB media committee chairman Jalal Younus confirmed Dhaka Tribune about the decision on Monday.

“The board has come to a mutual decision with Steve. We have decided to let him go and finish the association on good note. Given Bangladesh has tour of Sri Lanka end of this month, the board will decide the coach in the meeting going to be held between July 20-22,” said Jalal.

BCB’s dissatisfaction over Rhodes’ way of running the team has prevailed for long now. It is understood that a good part of the players in the national team also had their observation about the head coach but was never officially addressed.

Rhodes, despite having a contract with BCB running till ICC World T20 2020, has been in the board’s radar of discontinuation. Rumors were rife of the BCB mulling to let go the former England cricketer along with other national team staffs following Bangladesh’s dreadful performance in the World Cup 2019. The Tigers were expected highly but only to finish number eight in the 10-nation tournament.

The BCB had earlier decided not to extent contracts of national bowling coach Courtney Walsh. Both Walsh and fielding consultant Ryan Cook Cook had a contract with BCB running till ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Rhodes joined as Bangladesh coach on June 7, 2018. Under his guidance Bangladesh played four Test series- away and home against West Indies, against Zimbabwe at home and away in New Zealand. Tigers could win only the home Test series against Windies. But they won both the ODI series against the Caribbean side, reached the final of Asia Cup at the UAE and got their biggest success under Rhodes by clinching the tri-nation series in Ireland just prior to the World Cup.

Bangladesh’s next assignment is the tour of Sri Lanka later this month for a three-match ODI series. The Tigers had returned home on Sunday following a two and half month long tour of United Kingdom and are likely to get back to camp for tour of Sri Lanka on July 17. The three ODIs between Bangladesh and hosts Sri Lanka will be played on July 26, 28 and 30.

Name of Khaled Mahmud is high in the air as the probable coach for the Tigers in the tour of Lanka. At the same time former Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha’s name is also being heard as next full time coach. The Sri Lankan had taken a surprise leave from Bangladesh job in November 2017 following a disastrous tour with Bangladesh to South Africa. Hathurusingha had immediately taken the job as head coach of Sri Lanka national cricket team but has also been shaken recently over below par performance of the side.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/sport/cricket/2019/07/08/bcb-ends-rhodes-tenure-as-tigers-coach

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One year into a 2-year contract Steve Rhodes has lost his job as the Bangladesh Head Coach following a review of the team's performance at the World Cup. If Mickey Arthur is to be replaced Rhodes wouldn't be a bad choice to take over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CWC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CWC19</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1148269789493768193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[szundercover]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One year into a 2-year contract Steve Rhodes has lost his job as the Bangladesh Head Coach following a review of the team's performance at the World Cup. If Mickey Arthur is to be replaced Rhodes wouldn't be a bad choice to take over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CWC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CWC19</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1148269789493768193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Good post steve rhodes will be an excellent replacement for mickey arthur if the needs arises but pcb should also hire neil McKenzie as batting coach as neil was the one who revolutionized Bangladesh batting in limited overs cricket.

 

[Titan24]

Good post steve rhodes will be an excellent replacement for mickey arthur if the needs arises but pcb should also hire neil McKenzie as batting coach as neil was the one who revolutionized Bangladesh batting in limited overs cricket.

Yes Mckenzie did a pretty solid job.

 

[sweep_shot]

I personally think that BD should stick with a single coach for 3-4 years. Let the coach develop his own style. Problem in BD is, everyone overreacts and we end up in same situation over and over.

I am glad they got rid of Walsh. Our pace bowling didn't improve under him.

 

[Markhor]

Not sure what a coach can do in a single year. You have to give them time and space to implement their vision but desi mentality is to demand quick results.

 

[HappyWarsFan]

Not sure what a coach can do in a single year. You have to give them time and space to implement their vision but desi mentality is to demand quick results.

What has Mickey done for us in 3 years? Zilch. Destroyed our UAE recor
(And don't bring up CT, that was a one off)

 

[Markhor]

What has Mickey done for us in 3 years? Zilch. Destroyed our UAE recor
(And don't bring up CT, that was a one off)

UAE record would be intact if the yawning captain actually bothered to take responsibility for once in those two close Abu Dhabi run chases v SL and NZ.

 

[The Viper]

I am a bit surprised by this. Bangladesh batting was good for the most part. The bowling was weak so getting rid of Walsh made sense, but Rhodes is a quality coach who should have been given more time.

 

[King-Misbah]

I hope PCB dont replace Mickey with Steve! What is this? Musical chairs? We should go with Dean Jones next.

 

[AdamM97]

Bangladesh bowling let them down this WC. Their batting is better than ours (excluding Babar and Haris).

 

[szundercover]

I hope PCB dont replace Mickey with Steve! What is this? Musical chairs? We should go with Dean Jones next.

Steve rhodes is a better option as he has knowledge of modern coaching techniques a better strategist and thinker.

 

[King-Misbah]

Steve rhodes is a better option as he has knowledge of modern coaching techniques a better strategist and thinker.

A year is a long time and Bangladesh finished well below us in the WC. Where were the strategies and modern techniques?

 

[HappyWarsFan]

UAE record would be intact if the yawning captain actually bothered to take responsibility for once in those two close Abu Dhabi run chases v SL and NZ.

Agreed to be honest, honestly Inzi and Sarfraz need to go the most. I wouldn't be too angry if Mickey stayed.

 

[Sami92]

Fielding coach: The fielding wasn't upto mark of Bangladesh. They dropped catches, fielders were slow. By the time the fielder starts running, the single or double was completed by the opposition batsmen. Should get rid of the fielding coach, appoint a decent fielding coach and concentrate on fielding.

Head coach: With next ODI WC scheduled in India, for head coach, I think Bangladesh may look for someone from Sri Lanka (like Jayawardene or Hathurusingha) who has a good knowledge of sub continental pitches. Or they may look for an Aussie as T20 WC will be in Australia. Jayawardene will be a huge bonus as he can double up as a batting coach also. But I doubt that he will be interested as he has IPL coaching role and commentary stint.

Bowling coach: For pace bowling coach, if available, Bangladesh should try to get back Heath Streak. Bangladesh should understand that not all big name players make good coaches. Also should try to appoint someone with some sort of proven track record of developing players in their respective field.

I'm also interested to see if Bangladesh can appoint a leg spinner to groom and develop leg spinners (Jubair, Rishad, Minhajul) in Bangladesh.

 

[BaankeJi]

BD were hoping for a win against Pakistan. Washed out game against Sri Lanka did not help either.
So BCB is making its disappointment knows to all and sundry.

 

[Sami92]

BD were hoping for a win against Pakistan. Washed out game against Sri Lanka did not help either.
So BCB is making its disappointment knows to all and sundry.

The loss in the close game against New Zealand didn't help either. I believe Mushfiqur should give up keeping and focus exclusively to batting and give the gloves to Litton Das.

 

[gazza619]

Inzi and Sarfaraz must be having a big laugh.

Seems like their mess has fallen upon poor old Mickey.

 

[aloo paratha]

Kneejerk reaction from BCB. Bangladesh did better than expected in this World Cup.

 

[light]

Why fire the head coach. If you ask me, have done great job for them. If anything, should fire the bowling coach. Their bowling sucks ... was way better last WC

 

[Hyperion66]

Only dude that sucks totally in BD's coaching team is Walsh, not sure why they had to fire Steve Rhodes and Sunil Joshi, both did reasonably good job if I am not mistaken. Wonder what [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] has to say on this.

 

[Executioner]

Only dude that sucks totally in BD's coaching team is Walsh, not sure why they had to fire Steve Rhodes and Sunil Joshi, both did reasonably good job if I am not mistaken. Wonder what [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] has to say on this.

I agree. Infact, our spinners have bowled pretty well in this tournament. I know they weren't wicket takers but they were pretty economical given how others were getting destroyed and there were loads of misfield.

When Walsh came, even the most pessimistic BD fan would go as far as to say Bangladesh had the best pace attack in Asia. Right now our pace attack is only better than that of Afghanistan's.

 

[Executioner]

We had a poor campaign alright but why does BCB not do anything with the locals? What has Shujon done? What about our captain who averaged 350 with ball in hand?

 

[Hyperion66]

I agree. Infact, our spinners have bowled pretty well in this tournament. I know they weren't wicket takers but they were pretty economical given how others were getting destroyed and there were loads of misfield.

When Walsh came, even the most pessimistic BD fan would go as far as to say Bangladesh had the best pace attack in Asia. Right now our pace attack is only better than that of Afghanistan's.

I am sorry, what?

 

[Executioner]

I am sorry, what?

in ODIs**

We had Mustafiz, Mash, Rubel, Taskin.

Don't believe me? Check the stats of Bangladesh pacers' average between 2015-16 in ODIs. And mind you most of the games we played were in the Subcontinent.

 

[Usman Chadda]

I agree. Infact, our spinners have bowled pretty well in this tournament. I know they weren't wicket takers but they were pretty economical given how others were getting destroyed and there were loads of misfield.

When Walsh came, even the most pessimistic BD fan would go as far as to say Bangladesh had the best pace attack in Asia. Right now our pace attack is only better than that of Afghanistan's.

What the hell? )

 

[Hyperion66]

in ODIs**

We had Mustafiz, Mash, Rubel, Taskin.

Don't believe me? Check the stats of Bangladesh pacers' average between 2015-16 in ODIs. And mind you most of the games we played were in the Subcontinent.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a stats or spreadsheet guy but I have a good memory and I don't think bar Fizz's insane purple patch over a couple of series BD pace bowling as a unit looked really threatening. I don't think you can term an attack 'Best' based on a performance over a few months. Taskin never really set the world on fire despite some talent, Rubel is probably one of the worst bowlers to have ever played cricket and would give some of our trundlers a run for their money in terms of sheer mediocrity and with all due respect to Mashrafee he was already a trundler by 2015 due to multiple surgeries. However, I do agree that your attack regressed a lot since 2015.

 

[Executioner]

Don't get me wrong, I am not a stats or spreadsheet guy but I have a good memory and I don't think bar Fizz's insane purple patch over a couple of series BD pace bowling as a unit looked really threatening. I don't think you can term an attack 'Best' based on a performance over a few months. Taskin never really set the world on fire despite some talent, Rubel is probably one of the worst bowlers to have ever played cricket and would give some of our trundlers a run for their money in terms of sheer mediocrity and with all due respect to Mashrafee he was already a trundler by 2015 due to multiple surgeries. However, I do agree that your attack regressed a lot since 2015.

It was the best for a very short period of time. Hardly anything to write home about because of the time period.

Honestly with the performance of our fast bowlers in 2015/16 Bangladesh we were looking good for 2015 World Cup. Come the World Cup our pace trio is as follows:
1) Saiffuddin - His bowling is not much better than that of James Neesham
2) Mashrafe - He is way past his peak. CDG had better control than Mash at a similar pace.
3) Fizz - Amazing in the Death in terms of taking crucial wickets. Nothiing much apart from that.

If Streak was there we would not have seen this

 

[BDfanforever]

Don't get me wrong, I am not a stats or spreadsheet guy but I have a good memory and I don't think bar Fizz's insane purple patch over a couple of series BD pace bowling as a unit looked really threatening. I don't think you can term an attack 'Best' based on a performance over a few months. Taskin never really set the world on fire despite some talent, Rubel is probably one of the worst bowlers to have ever played cricket and would give some of our trundlers a run for their money in terms of sheer mediocrity and with all due respect to Mashrafee he was already a trundler by 2015 due to multiple surgeries. However, I do agree that your attack regressed a lot since 2015.

He is wrong about BD having best pace in Asia back in 2015. Didnt Umesh Yadav destroyed BD back in 2015 WC?

However, he is right that BD pace was never this bad during Heath Streak. Also, Fizz did not have just purple patch, he is still one of the leading wicket taker in this WC.

 

[Hyperion66]

He is wrong about BD having best pace in Asia back in 2015. Didnt Umesh Yadav destroyed BD back in 2015 WC?

However, he is right that BD pace was never this bad during Heath Streak. Also, Fizz did not have just purple patch, he is still one of the leading wicket taker in this WC.

It was a purple patch which is why he was averaging less then 15 during that period, now he is a decent bowler who is good with the old ball with his speed variations and cutters.

 

[Sherlock]

Bangladesh are ready for the next step in their evolution. I wonder which coach out there will put their proverbial hat in the ring and get a chance to nurture some very good players.

 

[MMHS]

Only dude that sucks totally in BD's coaching team is Walsh, not sure why they had to fire Steve Rhodes and Sunil Joshi, both did reasonably good job if I am not mistaken. Wonder what [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] has to say on this.

I think, there must be some other story in it - I read, Hathura is also sacked from SRL.... so you don't know.

Regarding Walshi, I think his trait (skill set) didn't match with our pacers. He was a top class hit the deck fast bowler at 6'5" height with West Indian shoulders, not the best fit for our boys. For national team, I thought he could be a fantastic mentor (National players shouldn't need fundamental coaching), but at junior level, we need coaches for skill development, rather than raw pace.

 

[ads101]

Fielding for Bangladesh was awful, Pakistan looked like they clearly outclassed them lol when I watched the match, so you know you have problems. Slow, lazy, honestly really bad, i'd have been fuming if I was a Bangladesh fan. Maybe it was the end match and they didn't try as much but it really did look a bit lazy and not up to par for them. So I would let go of the fielding coach, get someone else.

The captain's bowling was awful, he didn't even look fully fit. Might even need to retire. Difficult to be a fast bowling force, when you're carrying a player who's a dud.

I think Bangladesh did about average this CT, but didn't feel like it was a team performance, there were a few stars like Shakib who really excelled and pulled the team through, most were mediocre.

 

[gazza619]

Fielding for Bangladesh was awful, Pakistan looked like they clearly outclassed them lol when I watched the match, so you know you have problems. Slow, lazy, honestly really bad, i'd have been fuming if I was a Bangladesh fan. Maybe it was the end match and they didn't try as much but it really did look a bit lazy and not up to par for them. So I would let go of the fielding coach, get someone else.

The captain's bowling was awful, he didn't even look fully fit. Might even need to retire. Difficult to be a fast bowling force, when you're carrying a player who's a dud.

I think Bangladesh did about average this CT, but didn't feel like it was a team performance, there were a few stars like Shakib who really excelled and pulled the team through, most were mediocre.

The real problem for Bangladesh is the captain who doesnt want to retire...

They have some decent guns. Need to get rid of the passengers.

 

[sweep_shot]

Steve Rhodes is a good coach but he is probably a bit too relaxed to coach a lower-tier team. His coaching style would suit big teams (Australia, India etc.).

 

[Justcrazy]

They have options , they can try and get in Tom Moody , Mike Henson , Hathurasingha , Sangakara etc