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BCB waking up

Sports Reporter
The recent hopeless performance of the national cricket team has forced the authorities to rethink the recruitment policy of the players in the backdrop of a notion that the current crop 'feels comfortable about their future under the existing salary structure despite repeated failures.
The board while weighing options to take a hard line approach after the Tigers' 5-0 whitewash in Pakistan earlier this month and the subsequent careless remarks from captain Mohammad Ashraful is also contemplating financial punishment as a means to create awareness among the can't care less’ players.
"I think time has come to rethink the whole process because everyone is getting frustrated to watch this kind of poor performance day by day. We just cannot sit on it and must find a solution," said BCB s cricket operations committee chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain yesterday.
A former national captain, Ashraf said that financial penalty could be one among many options. But he made it clear that they have to find a way out to stop the slump in performance as it is not only displeasing to the millions of followers but also hindering the reputation at the international level.
"Let us find the problems behind the repeated failures first then we will think about the ways. Yes, financial punishment may be an option but before that we have to look at the bigger picture," he added.
In his first move, Ashraf has decided to sit with the national players today to understand their version behind the disastrous performance.
"Actually the cricket operations committee never sat with the players exclusively to discuss their performance.
"Wc will try- to get explanations about their irresponsible dismiss-
als. It was not actually the result but the way they got out that upset everybody, he explained.
It seemed that Ashraf, the 1999 World Cup team manager, was not ready to bring the coaching staff under the scanner right now and believed that players ultimately should perform.
"People should understand that the board is spending a lot of money and they (the players and staff) have to pay back. It is called professionalism. Everybody is accountable to their jobs but in the case of the coaching staff, you can only judge whether they run practice in the right way. But it is ultimately the players who should deliver in the middle," he explained.
There were an indication that the board is trying to put pressure on the national players by giving the message that there are a good num ber of players in the bench who can snatch their places any time and as a sign, they brought some discarded players into training. "The reality is that we have lack of backup players who can put pressure on the national players. We thought that keeping the out-offavour players in touch could be a way and as a result, we called up a camp for them," said Ashraf.
"We have to give a clear message that only performance would count and not age or anything else.
"We need healthy competition between the experienced and younger players even in domestic competitions. I think one should show his mettle in the domestic circuit before going into the highest level," he added.
Is looks that all is not over for players like Habibul Bashar and Khaled Mashud from the one-day side.
"Let's see how everybody play in the Super League (of the Premier Division) first,” said a smiling Ashraf.