Tigers meet Kirsten in its next virtual meeting on Wednesday
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh National Team’s players will meet former South Africa high-profile coach Garry Kirsten in its next virtual meeting session on Wednesday.
To boost players morally and mentally, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is organising the online conversation through Zoom Ultra.
BCB Cricket Operations Chairman Akram Khan confirmed the news to the country’s leading web portal Cricfrenzy.com.
“Gary Kirsten will come in our next virtual meeting with the players. You know Kirsten is an experienced coach who knows how to motivate players,” said Akram Khan, who is also an executive board director in BCB.
“Our players are away from cricket for a longer period. We hope players will benefit from it mentally and morally during this moment of crisis,” Akram told this correspondent.
Garry Kirsten, who coached India to win their second World Cup title at home soil in 2011, had been appointed by the BCB as a consultant to have overseen the selection of the head coach and its supporting coach.
Bangladesh had appointed English head coach Steve Rhodes in 2018 as per his suggestion. Even Kirsten played a pivotal role to appoint his compatriot Russell Doming and Carl Langerveltd respectively as head coach and fast bowling coach though Langerveltd later switched to South Africa after a couple of months in the Bangladesh job.
It is learnt that Kirsten has agreed to join the virtual meeting with the Tigers at the request of his compatriot Russell Doming, who is the current head coach of Bangladesh whose selection was overseen by Kirsten himself after the BCB’s mutual separation with the then head coach Steve Rhodes.
A host of the national and out of the national team’s players had begun individual practice at BCB’s designated venues across the country following a corona-enforced break
In addition, the national team’s players have had a string of virtual meetings with head coach Russell Domingo, spin bowling consultant Daniel Vettori, fast bowling coach Ottis Gibson and batting coach Neil McKenzie during the crisis period of the Corona pandemic.
