BCB to bring foreign coach for Bangladesh U-19 team
Sports Reporter
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will soon bring a foreign coach for Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket Team ahead of the upcoming tri-nation series.
The series will be held in India, wherein Sri Lanka is the third team after Bangladesh and the host country.
The two-week-long tournament will get underway in the last week of June and end in the first week of July.
In a bid to sign the deal with BCB, the coach will arrive in Dhaka within the next few days to formally join the team.
The board meanwhile announced a 24-member preliminary squad, who will start a month-long training camp at the BCB-National Cricket Academy (NCA) following their report today.
The camp will embark on with fitness training and then main practice with bat and ball. It will continue till June 23 before leaving for India for the tri-nation series.
The squad comprised of 12 batsmen, two wicket-keepers, four spinners and six pacers. After the end of the two-week, the squad will play a string of practice matches with some teams of first division and premier division at different grounds of the country to make their habituation with the wickets along with hone their skills and techniques.
Before taking off for the tournament, the squad will be whittled down to 15-member final squad. In this regard, U-19 coach Abdul Karim Jewel said that they are going to start a month-long training camp keeping the tri-nation in minds.
Weve a basic team, who played Youth Asia Cup in Sri Lanka. Weve picked some more players from the Youth Cricket League (YCL). Actually we formed the 24-member preliminary squad with the blend of these teams, said Abdul Karim.
Initial two weeks we will focus only on fitness and then play a string of practice matches at different venues, Jewel told reporters at the Lounge of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) yesterday.
Matches could be held in Sylhet, Fatullah, Khulna and BKSP in Savar, he added.
The coach said that they have two more targets at this level of cricket, first of which is to produce quality players for the next phase and then play at the top-flight level of the ICC World Cup. Our main target is to produce standard and quality players for the senior level. Todays Mustafizur Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraj, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mohammad Saifuddin came out from this level of cricket, Karim thought.
Weve ICC U-19 World Cup in New Zealand ahead. We try our best so we could have play at the top Cup level in the youths World Cup, he opined.
