Bye-bye to Pybus

After just about four months in the job, Richard Pybus refuses to work with the national team.

bdnews24.com
Published : 24 Oct 2012, 05:04 AM
Updated : 24 Oct 2012, 05:04 AM
Dhaka, Oct 24 (bdnews24.com)—Bangladesh's bowling coach Shane Jurgensen was made the interim coach on Wednesday for the home series against West Indies as Richard Pybus has refused to continue with the national team unless his condition was met.
Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan Papon told journalists that the decision was taken at Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Directors.
Pybus, who had been in the job for some four months, has not returned to Bangladesh from South Africa since the Tiger's failure in the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. He gave BCB a condition to go on leave when Bangladesh would not be playing any series.
Papon said the BCB in an e-mail had asked Pybus to return to Bangladesh as soon as possible. "But in the return e-mail, Pybus said it will not be possible for him to work due to family reasons," he said.
This prompted the board to thrust Jurgensen in as the interim coach for the upcoming series in November.
The BCB President said a final decision regarding Pybus will be taken at the board's Nov 1 meeting.
Jurgensen had been given the duty to coach the Tigers in March when Stuart Law refused to continue.
Papon blamed the inexistence of any written contract for the Pybus episode.
"You can be sure that nothing like this will happen again in the future," he said.
Papon also said he asked Cricket Conducting Committee head Enayet Hossain Siraj to make answers of complaints raised against BCB in an interview given to espncrickinfo.com.
"We spent much money to feed the cricketers following his instructions. He asked to bring some special foods like meat from Australia or meat from a specific part of a cow. It cannot be that he orders and we supply at once. Also, it is difficult for us to adapt these. Our boys eat something throughout the year and those foods for a week or 10 days. We should also consider whether these foods would make them fit," he said.
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