Hathurusingha retained as Bangladesh coach until 2019

 Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha's contract has been extended until the 2019 World Cup. The decision was approved at a BCB board meeting on Sunday.

Assistant coach Ruwan Kalpage, fielding coach Richard Halsall and fitness and conditioning coach Mario Villavarayan were also retained for another three years.

Hathurusingha, who was appointed head coach in July 2014, will also hold a place on the six-man selection committee, along with Bangladesh team manager Khaled Mahmud and BCB's cricket operations committee chairman Akram Khan.

A significant revamp of the selection process for Bangladesh's representative teams was proposed earlier this month, and on Sunday the BCB ratified those changes. This means the national squads will first be picked by a three-member panel, headed by Faruque Ahmed, then passed on to the six-member selection committee for their views, and finally submitted to the president of the BCB, Nazmul Hassan.

"We have only legalised the current process," Hassan said of the new process. "The cricket operations committee chairman will call the meeting with the selectors, coach and manager. The coach will give his strategic input, if he has any. The manager will give his and the captain's input."

Former Bangladesh batsman and junior selector Sajjad Ahmed was promoted to the three-man panel under Faruque. He replaced former Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar, who has been put in charge of picking Bangladesh's women's teams. Minhajul Abedin retained his place as senior selector on the panel.

Former Bangladesh players Hannan Sarkar and Hasibul Hossain have also been made junior selectors.

The BCB are also in the midst of preparing a response to the two-tier Test proposal, although discussion on that matter was not entertained at Sunday's board meeting.

"I stopped the CEO when he was giving a presentation on the two-tier system because the discussion itself is now at an early stage," BCB president Hassan said. "It was only discussed at the CEC [Cricket Executives Commitee] level in the ICC."

Source: ESPNcricinfo