Bangladesh
Cricket Board (BCB) named Ottis Gibson as the new bowling coach of the national
cricket team. The former West Indies fast bowler signed a two-year contract
with the cricket board. The new bowling coach started doing his job by joining
the team for the Pakistan tour in January this year. If everything goes
accordingly then he will be seen training the local bowlers till 2022. Earlier,
South Africa’s Charl Langeveldt was the bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket
team. Since his resignation in December 2019, the position was vacant.
Ottis Gibson in his short
career, which spanned almost four years from 1995 to 1999, played 2 Tests and 15
ODIs and claimed 3 and 34 wickets respectively. In 2007, he started his
coaching career with the England cricket team. The Barbadian was the bowling
coach of the England cricket team twice and the head coach of the West Indies. In
the last edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), he worked as the head
coach of the Cumilla Warriors, and as a result, he got the opportunity to
observe Bangladesh cricket from close.
There
is no doubt that the inclusion of Ottis Gibson will increase the strength of
the coaching team. His experience will help improve the skills of the local
bowlers.
