Former Bangladesh head coach Steve Rhodes has faith that Bangladesh cricket could get a local coach in future as he mentioned veteran local coach Mohammad Salahuddin’s name for the job.
Rhodes served as the technical advisor for the Comilla Victorians during their successful BPL campaign in 2022. Rhodes was the head coach of Bangladesh's national team three years ago, he had a stronger involvement in the game, which ended with his abrupt departure.
Salahuddin was the head coach of Comilla and has worked with Rhodes during the whole BPL period.
“Bangladesh have good coaches. I have experience with (Mohammad) Salahuddin, who has a good cricket brain. He keeps things relatively simple. There's definitely a Bangladeshi guy who could be Bangladesh's head coach. They would have to make compromises - the board and the coach - to make it a working relationship. Salahuddin could do the job really well. It could be the start of something,” said Rhodes during an interview with ESPNCricinfo.
“It is wrong of me talking of new coaches when you have got one in place. But I am not so sure that international coaches is the way forward all the time. I was one. The poor players get used to a coach, and he is gone. Then they get used to another coach, and he is gone. The players then go back to their own local coaches from years ago. He is here all the time, and someone they trust. They try to trust the international coaches, but they get moved on. It doesn't give continuity, which doesn't do good for Bangladesh cricket.”
“I think they are all different characters. You approach them in different ways - that's the skill of man management. All of them were terrific. But the one area that used to wind me up, and it wasn't their fault, is that the media called them the Magnificent Five. I was quoted somewhere saying that we are the Magnificent Eleven. I think that's important: the team,” he added.