Feud between Coach-Senior players remain the talking point ahead of Africa tour

The Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusinha had a successful stint with the Tigers so far. Bangladesh have secured historic wins against Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England and recently Australia. In the limited over format, the Tigers have done exceedingly well by reaching the semifinals of the Champions Trophy earlier this year. Overall, it has been a good show by the Asian side.

Coach-Senior players feud

But if reports are to believed then Hathurusinha has had a bitter relation with some of the senior players in the Bangladesh team. Their limited overs skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza left playing the shortest format of the game after the Sri Lanka series. It was then reported that the head coach had asked Mortaza to step down from captaincy in the T20 format. The feud there after resulted in an abrupt termination of the all-rounder’s T20 career.

Bangladesh cricket is not all about Mominul: Hathurusinghe

The head coach and the selectors were criticized for not selecting promising batsman Mominul Haque for the Australian series earlier. However, the batsman was later included in the squad.

“As a coach, you have a responsibility,” Hathurusinghe had said. “But the player also knows what he has to do. They are working very hard on it. “Somebody is going to go out of the team when they are not performing. Those players not in the squad, they are still practicing. Confidence comes when we communicate with the player. There is no rule but fairness is applied for everybody,” he added.

“Bangladesh cricket is not all about Mominul,” he had said. “Selection is done by consistency. Some of the guys were dropped for our last Test. I won’t mention name because the team is more important.”

With an important away tour of South Africa coming up, Bangladesh would look to keep all the rifts and controversies aside and put up a spirited performance against Faf du Plessis’ men.