Former national spinner Abdur Razzak is all 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 dissolved recently, confirmed the development to Cricbuzz on Monday.
"Yes, we had a discussion and I am expected to join in June," Razzak told this website. BCB is planning to restructure HP Unit and as a result transferred the 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, told this website that he was looking to foray 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 make sure he is fully prepared for the role of a coach.
"I always wanted to be a coach for a long time and ever since I was playing cricket it was there in mind (to be a coach) but later I joined the selection panel but now once this Level three course is completed successfully I will try to come into coaching," said Razzak.
"Actually, 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," he said.
"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, about what needs to be done and what not. 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 that he learnt a lot when he had to remodel his bowling action and now feels that those experiences will be helpful when he guides someone as a coach. "Of course, they (my time when I was remodeling my bowling action) 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," said Razzak.
"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.
