Bangladesh Planning Four-Day Camp In Dubai Or Oman

Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to organize a short 4-day camp ahead of the New Zealand Tri Series. The camp is expected to be in Dubai or Oman from September 22. Sridharan Sriram who is the technical consultant is keen to observe the players and plan for the marquee ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia

Bangladesh Cricket Board had a disastrous Asia Cup 2022 where the team got knocked out in the first round itself. There were high expectations from Bangladesh as they have senior statesmen present in the form of Shakib, Rahim & Mahmudullah. Before the tournament, Shakib was seen saying that he can’t bring the change immediately to the team which was quite surprising.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President on Camp:

“Basically, we planned to have a three-day camp now and what we are seeing is that they are unable to do that (due to rain) and it will not be possible soon. We sat down to discuss our plan of action in the present scenario and we are exploring an alternative arrangement and seeing whether we can do practice going somewhere else,” Nazmul Hasan said.

“They want to play somewhere else for three-four days because we have the World Cup and before that we have a tri-nation [series]. We don’t have chances of having a camp (in New Zealand) because we will reach there on October 2 and we have to give them rest after such a long journey. We can practice on October 4 and 5 while 6th will be optional. That is why we want if they could practice (earlier), it would be better.” He added.

 Mahmudullah’s place in the team has been questioned as he has managed only 182 runs in 11 innings since the last T20 World Cup, averaging 16.54 with a strike rate of only 102.82. Leaving out Mahmudullah can be quite risky as he is someone who can take the opponent by surprise.

BCB President made an interesting statement on the batter. “The issue is not Mahmudullah, what we want to say is that T20 is different cricket altogether and we are unable to understand it. Why can’t we do well in T20s when we are doing good in ODIs when the players are the same? There is something called mindset because we are failing with the same players and same coaching staff, and so we want to bring some change. Whatever we are doing we are not doing for this World Cup and there is no point thinking about this World Cup, and we have to target the next World Cup.”

“There is no coach who can change everything overnight. We are planning long term and preparing the team for the next World Cup, we are preparing the team for the next T20 World Cup. There will be a few experiments while there will be a few ups and downs and we are ready to absorb that and we cannot get disappointed. We want them to do well so that we have a formidable side by the next six to seven months or one year,” Nazmul added.

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