Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will send former skipper Akram Khan in England to supervise Bangladesh team in the upcoming Champions Trophy 2017, scheduled to be held in England and Wales.
Even though the board declared that former skipper Khaled Mahmud Sujon will play role as team manger for the Tigers in the England’s showpiece event, starting from June 1.
But the BCB later decided to send Akran Khan when Sujon himself informs the board that he could not go to the Champions Trophy because of his personal reason.
Akram Khan will go to take off for England to join the Tigers’ tent in the early hour of Saturday what he himself told the media.
“Khaled Mahmud could not go to England. And so I am being done the whole thing though Sabbir Khan had been given the responsibility as logistic manager,” said Akram Khan, who is also a BCB director and its cricket operation committee chairman.
“I will play the role as team manager alongside the Chef de Mission,” Khan told in response to a media query.
Sujon did not go with the team in Ireland to play the tri-angular series, wherein BCB cricket operation manager Sabbir Khan coupled with BCB director and its publication committee chairman Jalal Younus were sent as logistic manager and tour’s team manager respectively.
Playing the tri-nation series in Dublin, Bangladesh Team meanwhile returned to Birmingham from Ireland on Thursday, wherein they will play their first practice match against Pakistan today.
Khan though leaves for England today would not be possible for him to attend the first practice match. But he will attend the second practice match against India on May 30 before going into the ICC Champions Trophy campaign.
Bangladesh have been clubbed in the Group-A with Australia, England and New Zealand, the group which is considered as the Group of Death.
Bangladesh will launch their Champions Trophy with the hosts England on June 1. They will face off Australia on June 5, whilst Tigers will lock horns with New Zealand in Cardiff on June 9.