Cricket's assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin | Photo: BSS
Bangladesh assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin said on Thursday that he will not miss Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), country’s lone franchise-based T20 tournament.
Salahuddin took his team to BPL final on five occasions while winning championship on four occasions which made him the most successful coach of BPL.
Salahuddin will not be in the spotlight during the ongoing BPL as a coach considering at present he is involved with Tigers that barred him from guiding any team in the cash-rich T20 tournament of the country.
“I am not going to miss BPL. Whatever I do I try to be happy with it and in life I don’t regret that much. I want to see a good BPL where our boys perform well because that is important for me as well as for the team because if the standard of BPL is good it will benefit us. But I am not missing that too much and not for a second did I feel that way (BPL team have started their training),” Salahuddin told Daily Sun on Thursday.
“I am focused on the work that I am doing and I don’t look elsewhere like who is doing what because I have very limited expectations and want to give my hundred percent to the job I am doing. I don’t dwell too much on what I am getting and what I am not. I follow this philosophy that suggest a man is unhappy the most by seeing why others are doing well but I don’t have that in me because I feel if someone is doing good let him do it. Everything is predestined and planned by Allah so there is no point thinking too about it,” he said.
Salahuddin added that he is not sure whether he will be make it in the ground during all the games of BPL but he promised he will keep an eye just to make sure he is well aware about his resources for the national team.
“I think if I see it in TV it is better because I can see the replay as well. But I will try to see all the games from the field in Dhaka and if I can go out will do that as well and I feel it is important for me to see the whole tournament because our head coach will come and would ask me a lot of things like in which kind of planning we would go forward and what kind players do we need because in T20 though we have done well still I feel we have lot of areas to improve and lot of players are required to fill different spots and so need to see how these cricketers perform in those position,” he said.
“The main job for me in this BPL would be seeing how players respond in different situation. At certain point if any player want to practice with me individually I will try to help him and I am not worried about it and if they want I am available for them but I don’t think that will be the case they will be busy but I will try to see the games all the times,” he concluded.