'Make or break' home season: Ali Asghar

[Sam]

'Make or break' home season for Bangladesh

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Ali Asghar has warned that the coming home series' against New Zealand, India and Zimbabwe will be acid tests for the Tigers.

Asghar expressed his views at a meeting where chief selector Faruque Ahmed, coach Dav Whatmore, team operations manager MA Latif Khan, BCB advisor and media committee chairman Reazuddin Al Mamun, captain Habibul Bashar and his deputy Rajin Saleh were present.


"The team's think-tank was told that it was time to give back something to the nation especially since there is a negative campaign going on against Bangladesh internationally. The meeting was arranged to make them realise the seriousness of the situation and how significant the home season is for the team," said Mamun over telephone after the meeting.


Mamun also revealed that coach Dav Whatmore sought some more time for making a mark in international level.


"We identified ODI tournaments as our main problem area and the team management was asked to sort out why we there has been collapses," said Mamun who added that the Board was satisfied with Whatmore's explanation for the failures.


Mamun also disclosed that Saleh, who had led the team in the recently concluded ICC Champions Trophy in England in absence of the injured Bashar, had told the meeting that he found commitment missing in his batsmen during the tournament.

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Edited on, October 10, 2004, 8:33 PM GMT, by Sam.