Bangladesh Under-19 preparing for England tri-nation with World Cup in focus
|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh Under-19 squad is taking intensive preparation ahead of the tri-nation in England as they believe it will be perfect platform for them to prepare for the next ICC Under-19 World Cup, scheduled in South Africa.
Under the swearing heat Under-19 trainer Richard at Academy premises conducted an intense training program that was designed to prepare their body take the load of high intense situation.
According to bowling coach Mahbub Ali Zaki the camp is expected to run till June 26 before having the Eid break while they are emphasizing on fitness and skill for quite some time now.
‘’There are two programs in hand, first of all there is World Cup preparation, secondly we have a tri nation series in England it will include India, England and Bangladesh,’’ Zaki told reporters at SBNS on Wednesday.
‘’If we take past series into consideration, you will see, we played really well against Sri lanka and England. We had many positives in those series. Our work is based on this as England didn’t do well in our turf they will try to do well in their home condition. So, we are taking our preparation keeping this in mind, we will play for win too,’’ he said.
It is very important. Because our preparation for the South Africa world cup will start from England,’’ he said.
‘’And the conditions are very similar there, for this we are giving a lot of importance over the England series. Wickets, grounds and conditions will be similar to South Africa and our boys will have to understand that. Asian length and Europe length are totally different, it varies. Its not uneven, batsmen have to figure it out,’’ he added.
Mahbub added that they have tried to made their charges understand the importance of adapting to different conditions.
‘’We have taught the boys about the conditions. They have learned about Sri Lanka, England and south Africa’s condition. They know how the condition may be. In preparation, we also demanded that type of wickets,’’ he said.
‘’We demanded grassy and bouncy wicket. Playing in normal wickets wont help us there, wickets are most important. There will be a consistent bounce there, there wont be any uneven bounce there. I have the experience of playing in England too, so I will try to help them as much as possible,’’ he added.
‘’I have talked with Mashrafe also about the length, he aided me very cordially. As masrafe is very experienced . so, I asked about the appropriate length to bowl. He suggested me a length and told me if a bowl behind this length, it will become a short ball. The length we bowl here will become short length in England, usually we keep it a eight meter distance,’’ he concluded.
BCB officials added that they finalised a month-long deal with English coach Trevor Penny as their fielding coach for the BCB-High Performance (HP) programme though he will start his stint by working with the Under-19 sqaud after arriving in Dhaka on May 9.
Penney has had a busy career after finishing as a player with the English county Warwickshire. He was England's fielding coach in 2005 and an assistant under Tom Moody with Sri Lanka before assuming the top job there in 2007. After that he joined Moody at Western Australia and Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.
