The reality is that it would be unwise to focus too much on next month's event, the latest version of the game, especially for a team like Bangladesh when there is a much bigger challenge ahead for them. The shortest version of the game is still considered as more of a fun competition and the fact is that there is hardly any scope for Bangladesh to make 'fun' in international stage when they are under serious scrutiny in the five-day competition after their miserable performance in the recently concluded tour of Sri Lanka.

In true sense the Bangladesh team's next assignment, undoubtedly another demanding one after Sri Lanka, is their tour to New Zealand in December and everybody is well aware about how big a task it is to play against the Black Caps in their own den.

The new cricket authority has to decide immediately whether they would like to see the national team's humiliation in international stage for another occasion and if not, then the ad-hoc committee should straight away look back at the happenings in Sri Lanka last month to find out the 'course of action' for the next trip.

What Bangladesh desperately missed in the tour was a high-quality coach in charge after the departure of Dav Whatmore. It was evident that Mohammed Ashraful's men were de-motivated and extra relaxed even after their continued humiliations in the island.

It's good to think positive but sometimes a coach has to give his charges a dressing down as it has proved that one can't motivate the Tigers by pouring only the positive words. Each and every player heaped high praise on their interim coach (Shaun Williams) during the series. The reason was very lucid -- they hardly came under fire despite their irresponsible performances.

Williams appeared very 'soft' for the job and the most important thing is that he has another demanding job as a national game development manager, so we just neglected a very important area. Almost all the senior Sri Lankan players opined that Bangladesh needed a 'hard task master' like Tom Moody, who completely changed the work ethics of the Sri Lankan side.

Actually the whole tour management was terrible in the trip that was one of the big reasons behind the disgraceful performance and that's why there is desperately a need for accountability in this regard.

We can look at one example about why we need the much-needed accountability in the team management. Because of our below per batting performance, we simply overlooked another important area as the fielding was also horrible in the tour.

We have a specialist fielding coach in the team and apparently he has been working hard with the boys but what has been the ultimate result? What does all the hard work count for if a team drops 12 catches in three one-day matches. So, the authority should ask the question about where the problem lies.

There were also questions raised about the commitment of the players from the team management members, albeit in off- the-record discussions, but the question is then-- what is the use of the team management?

True, the new authority didn't get enough time to make the assessment on the tour but still it was not clear on why they changed only the team operation manager for the Twenty20 tour.

There was uproar in the media when the previous board handpicked Ali Asif Khan as team's tour operations manager. We have no campaign against any individuals rather what we believe is that there should be policy and proper process about any appointment for job that is highly technical.

However the most important task ahead for the new board is to improve the first-class standard. Otherwise it would be impossible to survive in the highest level of the game.

The new committee under the leadership of Chief of General Staff Maj Gen Sina Ibn Jamali has to give a clear message to the players about their duty because it is worrying for everybody when a team even found positives from their worst possible performance.

Otherwise, the New Zealand trip in December could be a complete Black-wash.