Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to suspend national team head coach Steve Rhodes.
The BCB high ups took the decision after a meeting in England following Bangladesh’s last game in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.
BCB media committee chairman Jalal Younus confirmed about the decision on Monday.
“The board has come to a mutual decision with Steve Rhods. We have decided to let him go and finish the association on a good note,” Jalal Younus told reporters.
He said: “BCB will decide about the new coach for the upcoming tour in Sri Lanka in a meeting scheduled to be held in between July 20-22.”
However, Rhodes’ contract was set to run until the Twenty20 World Cup in 2020.
The BCB had earlier decided not to extent contracts of national bowling coach Courtney Walsh. Both Walsh and fielding consultant Ryan Cook Cook had a contract with BCB running till ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.
Rhodes was appointed as head coach in June last year. The 56-year-old's tenure started off with a disastrous away test series as the Tigers were all-out for an embarrassing 43 on day one of the first Test match against the West Indies in the Carribean.
Tigers could win only the home Test series against West Indies. But they won both the ODI series against the Caribbean side, reached the final of Asia Cup at the UAE and got their biggest success under Rhodes by clinching the tri-nation series in Ireland just prior to the World Cup.