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The newly-constituted special committee of the
Bangladesh Cricket Board, consisting of three members, commenced its work on
Sunday with the aim of investigating the cause behind the team’s poor
performance in the recently ended ICC World Cup.
Bangladesh could only win two of their nine league
games and ended eighth in the 10-team competition in India, making this their
weakest World Cup performance since 2003. Bangladesh emerged victorious from
three World Cup matches in 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019.
On November 29, the board established a three-person
panel consisting of BCB directors Akram Khan, a member, and convenor Enayet
Hossain Siraj.
“The thing is that we are discussing with
everybody. It’s not an inquiry. The failings we had in the World Cup where our
results did not go according to expectations, meant that we had to talk to
everyone so that in the future we can take the team to higher levels,”
Enayet, convenor of the committee, told reporters following the meeting on
Sunday.
“It’s the initial stages (our findings ) and when
we end we will hand our findings to the board and they will give you all the
details,” he said adding that they are yet to decide when they will meet
head coach Chandika Hathurusingha and skipper Shakib al Hasan. “We haven’t
scheduled it yet,” Enayet said.
Shakib al Hasan, the captain of Bangladesh, Khaled
Mahmud, the team director, and head coach Chandika Hathurusingha had earlier
given their World Cup assessment reports.
There doesn’t seem to be a rush right now because
several of the players and coaching staff are participating in the ongoing Test
series against New Zealand, according to BCB officials, who emphasised that
there was no deadline for the special committee to give its conclusions.