Bangladesh eyes to move into 5 in ODI rankings
Cricfrenzy
|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon said his board is going to devise a long term plan to take the national to the fifth in the ODI rankings.
He revealed that the main target is to win more matches and series in abroad now in across the format of the cricket.
“We all know that, domestically we can do well and we have been doing well,” Papon told the reporters here on Wednesday.
“We have just started to win abroad. We won against Sri Lanka away and we also have won against West Indies. Thereafter we won last tri-nation series in Ireland which included Ireland and West Indies. So, these are all our achievements away from home. In World Cup we have also played some good matches and won,” he added.
With lot of away matches coming, Papon said it’s high time to create a winning culture in away, which he believes will help them to improve their rankings drastically.
“Now, we have lots of matches away from home. So, now our first target is to do well abroad and play to win. The number one priority is that our team does well in abroad. When I first came then we were the ninth or tenth-ranked team. I told that we have to improve our ranking, like seven. Now our main target is to enter among the top five in the ranking,” he remarked.
“So basically we are trying to everything that is needed to belong in the top five. Our next planning will be based on that. We will do an overall planning not only for the national team. We will try to improve our team from bottom so that in our pipeline we can have many players. Now, we have players for two years. We can go on with these players with two three years somehow. We must have a plan for 8-10 years so that, we don’t face any problem for the next 8-10 years.”
