Newage: BCB begins post-mortem

**Zunaid** · #1 March 26, 2011, 11:18 PM

http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/sports/13090.html

[Here is a less speculative and more factual report. Bolding mine]

BCB begins post-mortem

Staff Correspondent

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has initiated a move to investigate Bangladesh’s World Cup performance and took the opinion of national players on Saturday about the batting collapse of the team, in certain matches.

All but opener Tamim Iqbal and left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak appeared before the technical evaluation committee of the BCB and gave their opinion on what went wrong during the West Indies and South Africa matches.

Bangladesh collapsed to 58 and 78 all out in the two matches to suffer heavy defeats, which marred their otherwise modest World Cup campaign.

‘Players gave their opinion and we took a serious note of them,’ said Jalal Yunus, a member of the technical committee. ‘We will make a report based on their opinion and submit it to the Board for further course of action.’

Meanwhile, national coach Jamie Siddons also submitted a report to BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal about the World Cup campaign.

The BCB was scheduled to discuss the report on Saturday’s board of directors meeting, but the meeting was adjourned for some unavoidable reasons.

‘We thanked everyone for helping us in hosting the tournament successfully and then adjourned the meeting,’ said Yunus. ‘Siddons’ report will be discussed in the next meeting.’

The BCB officials said they will also decide Siddons’ contract renewal in the next meeting. ‘The present contract with the Australian coach expires in June, so we are in no hurry,’ said Yunus.

‘Currently, we are only negotiating the deals of fielding coach Julien Fountain and bowling Coach Ian Pont. Its seems Fountain will continue till the Australia series, but we have to sign a new deal should we want to keep Pont until that period,’ he said.

Australia will arrive in Dhaka for a three-match One-Day series on April 4 and any major changes in the team’s set up is unlikely until the period, said the BCB official.