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Siddons takes the far-sighted view

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons hardly seemed to be bothered with the 'ICL issue' concentrating instead on the fitness of middleorderbatsman Rokibul Hasan.
The Australian showed no signs of disruptions at the exodus of some national players while conducting training with his players on the first day of camp at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
"We have just lost a number of contracted players. It will take a fair bit of thinking to rearrange things. Rokibul Hassan is probably the bigger concern at the moment. He is our best player at the moment and he is still injured," said the Australian when asked about how big a problem it would be to make
the new composition after the ICL-cyclone.
Rokibul had injured his right thumb while batting in the first ODI against Australia at the TIO Stadium early in this month to rule him out from the remaining two games but the right-hander is expected to fully recover before next month's home series against New Zealand.
The 43-year old Tigers coach was also upbeat with the upcoming series against the Kiwis.
T am excited. I am disappointed that we have lost some players. But the players who have come in we are going to look at them anyway. I think we have picked a strong side and hopefully one that is good ^nough to beat New Zealand," said Siddons.
The ever-smiling coach also spoke highly of his under-pressure captain Mohammad Ashraful by saying that the right-hander is the
key figure of his team.
"I had a long chat with him after the last game (in Australia) and he is going to think about it. I said don't do anything in a hurry. I am not sure if things that happened in the last two weeks have had any impact. As far as I know he is still captain and if he hasn't resign and asked for a rest, I think he will be captaining in the New Zealand series. He is the one to do it. He is the key figure of our team," he said when asked about his comments on Ashraful's captaincy in Australia.
"He has comeback pretty fresh. He looks very happy to me. A little bit tired, but he looks quite happy. I am still hoping for the best of Ashraful. In the nets he keeps showing us that he can do the job.
“When he plays, we will be a much better team," said Siddons responding to a question about whether Ashraful should continue as a captain.
Siddons also rubbished the talking of Ashraful's involvement behind the scenes in the departure of some players.
"There is no way I will be saying anything. I think Ash (Mohammad Ashraful) is a pretty honest person. As soon as he was approached, he let everyone know and discussed that openly with them and I think he has made the right decision," he said.
"I don't think (board is trying to protect Ashraful not allowing to talk to the press), he just got off the plane. He has got to be brave in this situation," he added.
Siddons again confirmed that he had informed the matter to the board.
"As soon as I've heard there were talks about it, I have informed the Board. It wasn't names or confirmation. I think the players had an offer given to them and were in talks. Since I knew it, I had informed the board. I e-mailed to chairman of the cricket operations (Gazi Ashraf Hossain)," he said.
Siddons however didn't believe that the players had breached code of conduct by thinking of ICL during the Australia tour.
"I don't think so. I have job offers all the time, I talk and dismiss them. I think the players are no different. Everyone has got to make their decision and unfortunately our boys have chosen to go ICL,” he explained.
Bangladesh coach however was not sure whether the ICL issue has made any impact on the Australia trip.
"I think there has to have been some (impact). If the players were thinking about it and with the money that was on offer, it must have had an impact. But you can't say it for sure as Australia played really well and we batted really poorly. We bowled quite well, but it didn't really look to me that focus actually was 100 percent on the game by all of our players.
He also opined on former national skipper Habibul Bashar's allegation against him.
"The player probably shouldn't be speaking like that. I spent two hours with die players today, when they got problems in training. If they want something special, they need to speak up, all our players know that. Habibul Bashar also knows that he should speak up. He is a big boy," he said.