Sridharan Sriram: Ex-India spinner returns as Bangladesh’s technical consultant ahead of WC

Ex-India left-arm spinner Sridharan Sriram has returned to the Bangladesh team as its technical consultant for the upcoming World Cup. Sriram will be joining the team in Guwahati on September 27. The BCB’s cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus said that Sriram will provide them with local knowledge and will be reporting to Khaled Mahmud, who returned as team director earlier this month.

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Yunus said –

“Sriram has joined as the technical consultant. We will get a lot of technical support from him. He knows all the wickets in India. He can tell us about the weather conditions too. Very few of our players have played in India, so his input will be quite important.”

Sridharan Sriram is not a new face for Bangladesh cricket. In August 2022, he had joined as the technical consultant, though he was effectively the team’s head coach for T20Is. That came immediately after he left his six-year stint as Australia’s spin-bowling coach.

He had steered Bangladesh through to the T20 World Cup in Australia, where they won two games and were in contention for a semi-final spot till their last group game.