Mohammad Ashraful, photo: ESPN

DHAKA, Nov 6, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh's newly appointed batting coach Mohammad 
Ashraful downplayed the pressure that a national staff of this country goes 
through when the team fails to produce expected result.

Ashraful, considered as the first poster boy of Bangladesh cricket, said he 
is not worried about these things either, knowing that working with the 
national team means having to endure criticism. 

"If you are going to do the kind of work, which directly related with result, 
you definitely have to endure pressure," Ashraful said here today.

"Since I have played international cricket for 13 years, I have went through 
this pressure a lot. I have also come back from the pressure that happened in 
my life. I am not so worried about this issue. Wherever I go, I work 
honestly, I try to give 100 percent."

Ashraful, the youngest Test centurion of the cricket history, was given the 
responsibility to hone Bangladesh national cricketers' batting for just the 
upcoming Ireland series. He will leave Dhaka for Sylhet with the team 
tomorrow ahead of the first Test. 

What makes it more challenging for Ashraful is that for any coach, one series 
is not enough to prove himself. 

But Ashraful, unarguably the best batter of the country has ever produced, 
was little different in his thinking process.

"I got the opportunity to work for the country. Being able to work for one 
match is a big thing but they have given me an entire series," Ashraful said, 
adding that he was not worried about the timeframe he was given to prove him. 

"I will try to give my best in whatever I do. I am not worried about the 
thing like that I would have to do it for long time."

Ashraful has played for the national team and domestic cricket for almost two 
decades. He started coaching towards the end of his playing career. He was 
supervising the Barisal division in the ongoing National Cricket League (NCL) 
as head coach before being called up in the national team. 

Earlier, he also worked with Rangpur Riders in BPL and Dhanmondi Club in the 
Dhaka Premier League (DPL).

Ashraful said his goal is to help the batters to be consistent, a perennial 
problem that affected the team's batting line up badly. 

 "I have had many good innings in my life, as well as bad ones. I want to 
share these things. That's the reason that prompted me to come into 
coaching," he revealed. 

"Everyone should perform after two or three matches. I will try to share how 
they can do it."