BCB & our expectations
Nazmus Saquib, Bashabo, Dhaka
Bangladesh Cricket Board(BCB)--the most affluent and prestigious sports body of our country, has been reformed and a new ad-hoc committee has been appointed. It's welcome news indeed. Although the members of the past committee did a decent if not excellent job during their tenure, yet most of them were appointed on political consideration. The way they ran the premier sports body of our country came under question several times due to corruption and nepotism. But the people who ran the show were able to escape the wrath of the media and the people due to some extraordinary performances by our cricketers.But now is the time for this new committee to forget the past and move forward. They should make the BCB a transparent organisation. They should never forget that the BCB is there for taking our cricket forward and not for fulfilling individual goals. Right now, they need to appoint a new coach, physio, management members for our national team, and merit should be the sole criterion for these important jobs--where our national interest comes first. Even though our immediate past coach Dave Whatmore achieved successes on paper, but now is the time we need to ask ourselves whether this man was really able to instill the right temperament in our batsmen, especially in Test cricket. Whatmore should be held responsible for the repeated failures of our batsmen in the longer version of the game. We see our batsmen struggling to cross even 200 runs. They still don't know how to occupy the crease and play session by session. So I think our new committee should look into these aspects and should not commit the same mistake this time by appointing a high profile coach. There is no doubt that our cricketers are naturally talented and in my view, instead of appointing a foreigner, a local coach should be able to help them a lot. A local coach can easily sort out our players' problems and can communicate more easily with them. I think our former captain Aminul Islam Bulbul was neglected in the past and now BCB should give him a suitable position to aide our struggling batsmen. Cricket is the only sport where we have achieved tremendous success and our people are just crazy about the team. So, I do hope our newly formed BCB will be able to run the show more efficiently.
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