Published on 12:00 AM, September 03, 2018

Focus now on skills

Left-arm spinner Nazmul Islam had his first full-length bowling session at Mirpur yesterday since he got injured during the third T20I against West Indies in Florida last month. He had 25 stitches on his bowling hand. Photo: Star
Sports Reporter

With the Bangladesh cricket team's skills training having started yesterday, the remaining members of the Tigers' coaching staff -- batting consultant Neil McKenzie, bowling coach Courtney Walsh and newly appointed fielding consultant Ryan Cook -- are set to join the camp within the next couple of days.

Spin bowling coach Sunil Joshi reached Bangladesh on Saturday and has already joined the camp, accompanying head coach Steve Rhodes on the first day of the skills training camp at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur ahead of the 50-over Asia Cup starting from September 15.

McKenzie, who is expected to reach Dhaka yesterday, will join the training camp today while Walsh is set to land in Bangladesh today and will start working from tomorrow.

Fielding consultant Cook is expected to join the camp from September 5. In his absence, Rhodes worked on the fielding department with the cricketers since the start of the training camp on August 27. Physio Thihan Chandramohan and trainer Mario Villavarayan were also there from the start of the camp.

The selectors have already named a 15-member squad for the six-nation Asia Cup in UAE, where the Tigers will take on Sri Lanka in the tournament opener in Dubai. Bangladesh will also take on Afghanistan in the second group game on September 20 in Abu Dhabi.

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and his troops however will fly for the UAE a week earlier on September 9 to get used to the conditions. Bangladesh were the runners up of the previous edition of the Asia Cup in 2016 at home, which was a Twenty20 tournament.

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