The BCB has terminated
the contract of assistant coach Ruwan Kalpage after he failed to turn up for
work by August 16. Media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said Kalpage did not
respond to the BCB's latest letter.
"We had sent him a
letter asking him to return to work by August 16, but he didn't respond to us.
So the BCB has terminated his contract," Yunus told ESPNcricinfo.
On August 17, BCB CEO
Nizamuddin Chowdhury had said that the board would "take action"
against Kalpage for not turning up by the deadline. Kalpage and the BCB had
been in constant touch in the previous few weeks, after he voiced concerns over
his safety in Dhaka.
According to the BCB,
the other foreign coaching staff had indicated similar concerns, but those were
addressed by the provision of extra security. Head coach Chandika
Hathurusingha, fielding coach Richard Halsall and strength and conditioning
coach Mario Villavarayan all returned to Dhaka earlier this month. They have
been each assigned a security officer.
The BCB had sent
Kalpage a notice last week to return to work as they felt his "claim isn't
the right assessment of the situation".
Kalpage had joined the
Bangladesh set-up as assistant coach on a two-year contract in August 2014,
following the appointments of Hathurusingha and Villavarayan. Like the rest of
Bangladesh's foreign coaching staff, he was given an extension till the 2019
World Cup. He had earlier worked in Bangladesh as the National Cricket
Academy's head coach from 2008 to 2010.
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