Dhaka — In his first interaction with the media after reaching Dhaka, Charl Langeveldt, the newly-appointed pace-bowling coach of the Tigers, said he is upbeat to strengthen the Bangladesh cricket team with an upgraded pace-attack. Langeveldt believes Bangladesh has a good bunch of pacers who just need the right direction to go through.
“The challenge for me is to find seemers who can bowl outside Bangladesh. They can bowl at a good distance in South Africa and Australia. If you look at India now, they have got three seamers and they can win games in South Africa and Australia. Now, we have to find out some seamers who can do well in those conditions,” Langeveldt told the media at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Bangladesh are always a team who never found out a good display with the new ball regardless of the condition and the opposition. In most of their success, the spin bowlers did the job for their team to seal some joy.
However, Langeveldt believes this is the main challenge of a pace-bowling coach who works in the subcontinent. Due to the condition and the tradition, the spinners are more effective in Asia. The Asian teams are always happy to see their spinners come up and perform well in the home. But when it comes about touring abroad, Asian teams face endless struggles.
“Finding success with the new ball is important in ODIs and in Tests as well. That was a challenge when I coached Afghanistan. The things are the same here. I think it can be a small thing and technical thing if you look at Fizz (Mustafizur Rahman). He is the type of guy who can swing the ball into the left-hander. So that is a technical thing and as well as tactical,” Langeveldt added.
The former Protea pacer will have his three compatriots- Russell Domingo, Neil McKenzie and Ryan Cook in the dressing room to work together for the good of Bangladesh cricket.
“It makes a lot easier. Of course, I have worked with Russel, and he is a guy with good people skill. I thought it was excellent coming to the sub-continent and having Russell with me and McKenzie and Ryan Cook,” the 44-year-old Langeveldt said.
Like other foreign coaches, Langeveldt also has to face a language barrier while working with Bangladeshi pacers. But he said it will not be a tough job for him to make the boys understood his plan and instruction.
“I know how to deal with it. I want to work one on one with a player make sure if he doesn’t understand bring someone to make him understand. Slow it down and not speak so fast and listen to what he is going to say. And then build the relationship because important to have a relationship with your fast bowlers,” he concluded.UNB
