No coach, no problem
Former West Indies head coach Phil Simmons arrived in Dhaka last night to give his presentation to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the vacant post of head coach.
English-born coach Richard Pybus has already made his case to the BCB and Simmons will be the second candidate.
The BCB will have a board meeting today to discuss the candidates for the role, but in a meeting with BCB president Nazmul Hassan yesterday the three captains -- Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim -- asked him not to rush the decision and assured they were ready to play the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka in January without a coach.
"[Chandika] Hathurusingha is not here with us and at this moment we do not have a coach. It may be the case that we do not appoint a coach ahead of the next series. So I asked them to plan how we can play the next series," Hassan said. "First of all I asked them if they were confident of playing the next series without a coach and they all said that they were confident."
"We are not saying that no coach will be appointed. It may be that we will appoint a coach tomorrow [Saturday] or the day after. I told them to be mentally prepared in case we do not appoint a coach ahead of the next series," the board president concluded.
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