Former Bangladesh spinner Abdur Razzakis set to join the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s High Performance (HP) Unit from June. Razzak, who was part of the former BCB board led by Aminul Islam that was recently dissolved, confirmed the development on Monday.
The BCB is currently restructuring its HP Unit. As part of the changes, national senior assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin has been appointed head of the HP Unit and is expected to take charge after the ongoing series against Pakistan.
According to
Cricbuzz, Razzak had earlier expressed his interest in moving into coaching during his tenure as a BCB director. Before joining the board, he also served as a member of the national selection panel. To prepare for his coaching career, Razzak earned his Level 3 coaching certification in January 2026.
"Yes, we had a discussion and I am expected to join in June. I always wanted to be a coach for a long time and ever since I was playing cricket it was there in mind (to be a coach) but later I joined the selection panel but now once this Level three course is completed successfully I will try to come into coaching," said Razzak as quoted by Cricbuzz.
"Actually, everything is not completed just through this one coaches' program. Throughout my entire career, whatever has happened, whatever I have learned - there are many things that I have felt are impactful and those things are actually possible to apply. For instance, suppose now there is a young boy who learns something that I learned at the age of 30. If in current times, that boy learns it only when he reaches 30 while playing for our country, then there will be no impact,” he added.
Razzak said that he learned a great deal while remodeling his bowling action during his playing career and believes those experiences will help him in his new role as a coach. The former left-arm spinner represented Bangladesh in 13 Tests, 34 T20 Internationals, and 153 One Day Internationals, claiming more than 250 wickets across formats during his international career.
"In order to ensure that impact, this is mainly done - so that they are at least given a knock beforehand about things that we perhaps were not very informed about, about what needs to be done and what not. But there are many things which, in my opinion, if players are informed earlier, if they practice earlier, if they work on them earlier, they can be one or two steps ahead," said Razzak.
"Of course, they (my time when I was remodeling my bowling action) will be useful. This is why, in most cases, players are preferred in coaching. Just because of the situations they have faced throughout their careers - these cannot be found in any book. Only someone who has faced those situations can say, I have faced this and that scenario. And what I find most interesting is that, those situations become clear later on, after retirement, in that if I had not done that work in a particular way and had done it another way, it could have yielded a different result. I want to pass on those things as well," he added.
