Former selector lambasted BCB for being short sighted
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Former chief selector Faruk Ahmed on Thursday criticized Bangladesh Cricket Board for their thinking policy of waiting till the last minute before finalizing the World Cup squad as it was nothing apart from being short-sighted.
BCB president Nazmul Hasan a day before the squad was announced officially [April 15] said publicly that they will wait till the last deadline before finalizing the World Cup squad and would see how everything fares after the Ireland series.
It is understood that teams can make changes to their World Cup squads till May 23, without seeking permission from the ICC and the April 23 deadline to name the 15 was set by the ICC so that they can plan about their logistic support.
However, no World Cup participants had been so open regarding making changes in the last minute unlike Bangladesh for the global tournament and according to Faurk this mind-set exposed their insecurities.
‘’I have a feeling that the management is insecure about their World Cup team and I didn’t like that,’’ Faruk told reporters at the BCB premises on Thursday.
‘’I didn’t like that,’’ he said.
‘’We all know WC squad can be changed till the 23 May. They are worried about some of the players form and they made it clear that they will change the team based on the performers of Ireland series,’’ he said.
I don’t see that in a positive way. I feel they players won’t be feeling confident after that. They will be thinking, if I don’t play well, I might get dropped from the WC squad,’’ he said.
‘’We shouldn’t have said that instead we should have said, this is our best team, those who are not in form we hope they will get back in form soon. Then the players would have felt more confident,’’ he said.
‘’I feel the management short-sighted,’’ he added. , who had announced the World Cup squad as chief selector in 2007 and 2015.
