BCB mulling to extend coaching staff's contract for one year

DHAKA - The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has
planned to extend the contract of their current coaching staff
including the head coach Russell Domingo for one year after the
Twenty20 World Cup this year.

  "In fact, the final decision on the tenure of the coaches has not
been made yet. Their contract is up to this World Cup. We are now
thinking of extending it by one year. There are two T20 World Cups
ahead, for now we have these two T20 World Cups in our heads. We have
to discuss more about it," BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon said here
today.

  The BCB has recently appointed Ashwell Prince as the batting
consultant for the 2022 Australia T20 World Cup but other coaches
including Domingo has the contract till 2021 T20 World up. The cricket
governing body plans to renew the contract of other staff in the same
process.

  That list includes coach Russell Domingo, bowling coach Otis Gibson,
fielding coach Ryan Cook, spin coach Rangana Herath, strength and
conditioning coach Nick Lee.

  Domingo gave an interview to BCB on August 8, 2019. The South
African came to Bangladesh to give an interview as the coach of BCB's
High Performance Unit (HP). Overwhelmed by his profile, the BCB
offered him to coach the national team. The salary is estimated at 15
thousand dollars per month, in Bangladeshi currency which is BDT 12.68
lac.

  Within a few days after Domingo took charge, Bangladesh cricket
received the biggest when they tasted defeat at the hands of
Afghanistan in one-off Test at home. After that, Bangladesh had a very
bad performance in the Test series in India and Pakistan. All three
Tests the lost badly.

  However, Bangladesh won a T20 match against India in Delhi before
losing the three-match series by 2-1. Bangladesh then whitewashed
Zimbabwe and the West Indies in ODIs at home, and later lost to
Zimbabwe in a Test match.

  But after being whitewashed in a two-Test series on home soil by the
West Indies, rumors of the coach's bleak future came to the fore.
Bangladesh then also lost three ODIs and three T20s. In Sri Lanka, the
Tigers then drew a Test and lost the last.

   However, in the last tour of Zimbabwe, Bangladesh won the series in
all three formats and defeated Australia 4-1 in the T20 series at
home.

  Under Domingo, Bangladesh has lost 21 out of 48 matches in three
formats and won 25. Bangladesh have won two of their last 10 Test
matches, 11 of their 15 ODIs and 12 of their 22 Twenty20
Internationals.BSS