Abdur Razzak set to join BCB's High Performance Unit

Former national spinner Abdur Razzak is set to join the Bangladesh Cricket Board's High Performance Unit from June. Razzak, who was part of the former board led by Aminul Islam that was recently dissolved, confirmed the development to Cricbuzz on Monday.

"Yes, we had a discussion and I am expected to join in June," Razzak said. The BCB is restructuring the HP Unit and has transferred national senior assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin as head of HP, who is expected to take over after the ongoing series against Pakistan.

Razzak, during his time as BCB director, said he was looking to move into coaching. He had worked as a member of the national selection panel before joining the board as director. Razzak obtained a Level 3 coaching certificate in January 2026 to prepare for the role.

"I always wanted to be a coach for a long time and ever since I was playing cricket it was there in mind, but later I joined the selection panel. Now once this Level three course is completed successfully I will try to come into coaching," said Razzak.

"Everything is not completed just through this one coaches' program. Throughout my entire career, whatever has happened, whatever I have learned – there are many things that I have felt are impactful and those things are actually possible to apply," he said.

"For instance, suppose now there is a young boy who learns something that I learned at the age of 30. If in current times, that boy learns it only when he reaches 30 while playing for our country, then there will be no impact. In order to ensure that impact, this is mainly done – so that they are at least given a knock beforehand about things that we perhaps were not very informed about. But there are many things which, in my opinion, if players are informed earlier, if they practice earlier, if they work on them earlier, they can be one or two steps ahead," he said.

Razzak said he learned a lot when he had to remodel his bowling action and believes those experiences will be helpful when guiding someone as a coach. "Of course, they will be useful. This is why, in most cases, players are preferred in coaching. Just because of the situations they have faced throughout their careers – these cannot be found in any book. Only someone who has faced those situations can say, I have faced this and that scenario. And what I find most interesting is that, those situations become clear later on, after retirement, in that if I had not done that work in a particular way and had done it another way, it could have yielded a different result. I want to pass on those things as well," he said.