DHAKA: Former South Africa all-rounder
Albie Morkel will join Bangladesh as power-hitting batting coach ahead of their three-match one-day international series against the Proteas, the country's
cricket
board said Wednesday.
The short-format specialist's international career ended in 2015 after 50 Twenty20 matches, 58 ODIs and a solitary Test.
He will serve as the first Bangladesh power-hitting coach with a view to helping batsmen improve their boundary clearances -- a weak link in the current squad's white-ball matches.
Morkel joins fellow South Africans
Russell Domingo
, the head coach and
Allan Donald, the pace bowling coach, on the backroom team. Australian
Jamie Siddons is the batting coach.
"We have made this appointment on a short-term basis. Albie was available for a small duration, so we thought a few sessions with him might help our batsmen,"
Bangladesh Cricket Board
chief
Nizamuddin Chowdhury
told AFP.
"Four to five sessions in South Africa may not bring a big change. But we will get to see if it can be really useful," he added.
Morkel has already joined the Bangladesh squad in Johannesburg, Chowdhury said.
The three-match
ODI
series begins on Friday at Centurion. Two Tests will follow in Durban and Port Elizabeth.
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