BCB wants foreign coach for women’s team

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will try to appoint a foreign coach for the female cricketers once again to replace the Indian coach Anju Jain.

Former Indian captain Anju Jain had recently joined Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) to coach their senior women’s team.

Jain’s contract with the Bangladesh women’s team expired in March. BCB did not choose to extend it largely due to the side’s poor show in the recently concluded Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

The BCB however did not officially state that they would not give her new contract since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the whole world.

Jain, a wicketkeeper, who played for India for 12 years and had also captained the squad during Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2000, did not let BCB anything to know about her contract with the Baroda Cricket Association.

“Her (Jain) contract was expired in March. We had no intention of renewing her contract. Basically we started searching coaches for the women’s after the World Cup but the procedure got halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, the chairman of BCB Women’s Wing told the BSS.

Nadel said that they would give a foreign coach a top priority.

“We always want a world standard coach for our women’s team so that they can reach another height,” he added.

Nadel however expressed his hope to find out a coach for the women’s team within a month.

“It’s tough to get a coach at this moment because whole world gets stranded due to the coronavirus. But still we are working on it intensively. Hopefully we can find out a coach within a month.”

Anju Jain replaced England’s David Capel to be Bangladesh Women’s team coach in 2018. She was initially given a six-month contract, which later was extended till the Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia this February.