DHAKA: A three-person committee including former captain Akram Khan will look into Bangl-adesh’s disappointing Wor-ld Cup, the country’s cric-ket board said on Wednesday.

       Bangladesh won two matches and lost seven at the one-day tournament in India in October-Nove-mber, finishing eighth out of 10 teams.

       The committee will “scru-t-inise the factors contributing to the team’s unde-rperformance”, the Ban-gladesh Cricket Board said. It was Bangladesh’s lowest number of wins at a World Cup since 2003, when they failed to win a game.

       They won three matches in each of the next four World Cups, in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019. Expec-tat-ions had been high in Ban-gladesh, especially after they finished third in the qualifying tournament.

       They started the World Cup with a win over Afghanistan, before six consecutive losses took them out of contention for the semi-finals.

       Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2023