Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has appointed former Zimbabwe Test captain and also Zimbabwe’s all-time leading all-rounder Heath Streak as specialist bowling coach of Bangladesh National team for next two years on Monday.
Streak is expected to arrive in Dhaka in the first week of June and will form a new-look coaching partnership with head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe.
“Streak has agreed a two-year term with the BCB during which he will commit 450 days based on the schedule of the Bangladesh team,” BCB director and media committee chairman Jalal Yunus informed.
He said Heath Streak will primarily work with the national side and is expected in Dhaka in the first week of June.
According to his contract, Streak will be available three weeks before every series and will prolong his stay with the team before the 2015 World Cup. Apart from the role of national team coach, he will also be a consultant for the other teams under the BCB.
Streak, is one of Zimbabwe’s most acclaimed cricketers and also performed the role of bowling coach of the national team (between 2009 and 2013) after his retirement as player.
The newly appointed Bangladesh bowling coach, 40-year-old Heath Streak played 65 Test matches and 189 ODIs during his career as player to score 4933 runs and to claim 455 wickets in international cricket.
After his retirement, he had performed the role of bowling coach of Zimbabwe national team and as a coach he has worked with some top bowling coaches in the international arena.
After the announcement of his appointment, BCB media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said: “Heath Streak’s experience and record speaks for him. He told us that coaching was his passion and we really appreciate that kind of desire.”
Streak, currently in Bulawayo, said he was relishing the prospect of working with the Bangladesh team. “I look forward to the challenge of working with the Tigers and thanked BCB for the opportunity.”
“It is exciting for me to be back into the International coaching arena again. It is my passion to coach at an elite level and I hope I can bring my experience as a former player and coach to the Bangladeshi bowlers, Streak said in a statement released by the BCB.
“I look forward to teaming up with the new coaching staff and mapping the future for this exciting team,” he added.
Source: UNBConnect
