Tait Withdraws At Last Minute, Taylor Not Available For Long

Bangladesh Cricket Board official said on Tuesday that former Australian pacer Shaun Tait has withdrawn his name from the interested coaches’ list of becoming Tigers new pace bowling coach.

The foreign coach recruitment committee took interview of several coaches for the post that went vacant earlier. 

 “Shaun Tait was on the list. But he had a contract with Windies Cricket and because of that, he withdrew his name. His interview didn’t take place,” Naimur Rahman Durjoy, member of BCB’s special coach recruitment committee, told reporters in Mirpur.

Meanwhile, Naimur added that they had contact with Ross Taylor but the former New Zealand cricketer has some time limitations to work with them.

The BCB started taking interviews with the interested candidates on Tuesday and on the opening day, they took interviews for batting coach and pace bowling coach positions. 

Thilan Samaraweera, Corey Collymore, Mahbub Ali Zaki, Stuart Law and David Hemp were among many interested candidates who were interviewed on Tuesday.

The BCB earlier issued advertisements for different positions including strength and conditioning coach, batting coach, pace bowling coach and analyst for the national cricket team, as well as the national team’s assistant coach for the next two years.

Collymore, who was appointed as the BCB’s High Performance Unit bowling coach, worked with the Bangladesh team following the departure of South African pace bowling coach Allan Donald.

David Hemp, BCB’s High Performance Unit head coach, worked with the Tigers as their batting coach in the recent past.

Law, who is currently the head coach of the Bangladesh Under-19 squad, worked with the national team earlier as head coach while Samaraweera also worked as a batting coach previously with the Tigers.