|| CF Correspondent || 

Bangladesh batting consultant Neil Mckenzie urged cricketers to stop playing for position and focus on becoming the best.

Mckenzie starts as the batting coach of the national team from mid-2018 and has seen many young and talented players in and out of the national team squad.

Players like Liton Das, Mosaddek Hossain, Afif Hossain, Mohammad Naim and so on.

The batting coach believes there are so many talents and resources who are good players and it's the job of the coaching staff to turn those good players into great players but for this, the young players should have an average score 40 to 50 rather than 30s to become world-class.

"Bangladesh, with its massive talent and resources, have a lot of good players without being great players. I think it is our job, as coaching staff, to develop these guys, or push them in an area where they can become world-class. The younger lot is averaging in the 30s, where you know to be world-class, you have to average 40 to 50. That's the goal," Neil Mckenzie told in an interview to the ESPNCricinfo

 

"It is a team game but if you have your top six averaging high numbers, it means you are getting more runs, competing more and giving the bowlers something to bowl at. I think Liton has pushed the bar up a little bit. When the standard is X, he has made it X-plus. It could have a knock-on effect on the others." Mckenzie also added the answer of how a good player can be best, it's simply by leaving the position play and focus more on just play, will turn the next course of players into best players in the world.