Bangladesh players were not the only ones to receive sticks from fans and the media following the debacle in the Asia Cup as the Tigers' team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon also came under scrutiny, triggered by his aggressive responses made during the continental championship.

Khaled Mahmud Sujon, Bangladesh team director and former national cricketer,  stated that he still holds on to his stance taken during a verbal war triggered by Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka during the Asia Cup.

Even though Bangladesh exited the Asia Cup, a continental championship, without any victories, team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon was of opinion that the Tigers possess the ability to conquer the world.

Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa offered an olive branch to the Bangladesh players and said his side planned to win their last night’s Asia Cup encounter by any means.

Sri Lanka great Mahela Jayawardena has urged the Lankan bowlers to ‘show their class’ in their Asia Cup encounter against Bangladesh in Dubai today and, in the process, disprove Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon.   

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon claimed that Sri Lanka do not even have bowlers of the quality of Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman in their ranks as Sujon became the latest to join the verbal war going on between the cricketers and management staff ahead of the two sides' Asia Cup group stage game tomorrow.

Jamie Siddons, Bangladesh batting consultant, was there and so were other members of the coaching panel in Allan Donald, Shane McDermott and Rangana Herath. Team director Khaled Mahmud walked down the side line, passing on instructions but head coach Russell Domingo was nowhere to be seen yesterday during Bangladesh's preparatory practice match for the Asia Cup, played between Bangladesh Red and Bangladesh Green, at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

Three years after appointing Russell Domingo as head coach and one year since handing him a contract till 2023, the Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB's) abrupt realisation that the South African's philosophy does "not suit the Bangladeshi brand of cricket" certainly raised a lot of questions.

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon said that ‘positive human being’ Russell Domingo will take former India all-rounder Sridharan Sriram's inclusion in the Tigers’ coaching panel in a positive manner.

If the squad in the Zimbabwe T20Is was an actual attempt at finding players, Mahmudullah's inclusion did not make sense. More worrying is the fact that if BCB seems to know what senior stars are capable of, why did they bring in someone whose own lack of form had seen him rested and shorn of captaincy just before the series?

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon slammed the cricketers, saying that no one from the Tigers’ side even made an effort to win the final T20I against Zimbabwe in Harare yesterday. 

T20I skipper for just a series, Nurul Hasan Sohan's injury triggered chaos and exposed the lack of clarity in the decision-making of the Bangladesh national team's think tank once again.

Arranged by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) cricket operations committee, the national team cricketers had a lunch meeting at a hotel in the capital today ahead of their white-ball tour of Zimbabwe later this month.