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Former Sri Lankan all-rounder Chandika Hathurusinghe was made the coach of Bangladesh in February last year.
Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe has been suspended by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on disciplinary grounds. He has been suspended for 48 hours and after this period he will be immediately dismissed.
The board has also issued him a show cause notice. The board has appointed Phil Simmons as interim coach till Champions Trophy 2025.

Bangladesh has appointed Phil Simmons as interim coach till the Champions Trophy 2025.
Bangladesh lost test and T-20 series to India This decision of the Bangladesh Board has come at a time when the team had to lose both the T20 and Test series on the India tour. Bangladesh came to India tour after defeating Pakistan in the two-match Test series at home. In India, Bangladesh first faced defeat by 2-0 in the Test series and then by 3-0 in the T-20 series.
Hathurusinghe took over the post last year Former Sri Lankan all-rounder Hathurusinghe was made the coach of Bangladesh in February last year. His tenure was till the 2025 Champions Trophy. Under the leadership of 56-year-old Hathurusinghe, Bangladesh performed very poorly during last year’s ODI World Cup and this year’s T-20 World Cup. Hathurusinghe’s best achievement this year was Bangladesh’s 2-0 Test series win against Pakistan.
Simmons was the head coach of many teams Simmons, a former batting-all-rounder of the West Indies team, has recently coached with his West Indies team. Before this, he was the head coach of Zimbabwe from 2004-2005, Ireland from 2007-2015, West Indies from 2015-2016, Afghanistan from 2017-2019 and West Indies from 2019-2022. Simmons played 26 Tests and 143 ODI matches in his international career. He had scored 1,002 runs in his Test career. He had scored 3,675 runs in ODIs.
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