Bangladesh Cricket Board to adopt new selection process

The Bangladesh Cricket board is set to adopt a new selection process for the future. The reports come in only days after Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha was inducted into the Bangladesh selection panel. The decision to divide the responsibilities among different selection units initiated by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) working committee was okayed by the technical committee.

The proposal put forth by Hathurusingha explains that team selections will be overseen by a three-man selection panel. This panel will then hand-pick a squad of players which will then be screened by a selection committee before handing the list to the president of the board for a final approval. Nazmul Hassan Papon, the president of the BCB confirmed the same on Sunday.

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“The selection panel will continue to have three selectors,” Hassan said on Sunday (June 5). “One of the three would be the chief selector. They will select the squad. There will also be a selection committee, which will consist of the three selectors – the coach, the team operations manager and the cricket operations committee chairman as the convenor of the selection committee.

“The head coach would inform the selectors beforehand of his strategy and what type of players he would require for a particular series. The manager would be presenting the opinion of the captain and vice-captain. They will all sit in a meeting, in which they will sign off the team and send it to me. There won’t be any disagreements.”

“The coach isn’t bound to watch the matches. But if he is in Dhaka, he will watch domestic matches. He wants to watch the [Dhaka Premier League] matches tomorrow,” he said.