|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) made it clear they need a coach with at least a little experience to work with sub-continental team as they have already begun the groundwork of finding the successor of Steve Rhodes.

“It’s not like he has to be from our sub-continent. We are looking for someone who has some experience of working with sub-continental team or at least know well about the sub-continental teams,” BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon told the reporters in London.

Having said that the BCB chief revealed, the door is ajar for the Bangladesh’s former coach Chandika Hathurusingha also.

“We haven’t have any contact with him [Hathurusingha]. How many days left in his current contact (with Sri Lanka) we do not know yet. We will have our door open, we will see if he is interested. We will consider him with the same importance. We have lot of options but there is no specification yet,” he remarked.

Last time when Hathurusingha abruptly resigned from the Bangladesh’s head coach post, BCB had to sweat over finding a suitable one. They had to wait one year before picking up Steve Rhodes as his successor.

However this time, BCB president ensured that there will be no hiccup like that.

“Last time we took time because the names we had in our mind were already working with some other teams. This is the right time to pick a new coach. Because World Cup is almost over and many coaches are about to end their current agreements, so, if we ask for someone, we have good possibility to get him.”

“We have good names in our list. We have lots of options as the World Cup is over many of them are free,” he opined.

Given the past experience, BCB wants to alert in choosing the coach.