The chairman of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) game development Khaled Mahmud informed that he sat with the head coach of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) Richard McInnes to plan strategies for the rising cricketers and also make use of the local coaches in various camps.
“There was very little work for the academy cricketers as there were no programmesso we had a long discussion regarding this issue at the same time we are thinking about utilising our local coaches for the camps,” said Mahmud at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday.
Bangladesh U-19 team failed to reach the semifinals of the U-19 Asia Cup recently but the chairman of the game development informed that the main focus is to improve the game for the youngsters. “We have won the first two matches but couldn’t reach the semifinal. I won’t say that it was a failure, we are not thinking about winning a championship in the age levels. All we want is to improve the game and prepare those cricketers for future,” said Mahmud.
“Once we used to hide the age of the cricketers which is now not happening and we are spending so much to develop the cricketers where we don’t want to think about what happened in the past,” he added.
McInnes echoed Mahmud and said, “Sujon (Khaled Mahmud) and I both agreed to the point of utilising the young talents for future and also fulfill the requirements of the cricketers for the national side by preparing the cricketers from age levels.”