The Bangladesh national team Thursday completed four days of closed-door training in Mirpur in order to prepare for the upcoming Asia Cup.
While there are assertions that training sessions needed to be held behind closed doors in order to avoid opponents getting technical information from video footage, the aim was to hold the sessions under comfortable circumstances.
The request had come in from the team management to facilitate these closed-door sessions away from media eyes. Match-scenario training was the most significant part of these sessions on August 13, 14, 16, and 17. On August 12, match-scenario training was held in the presence of the media.
Media scrutiny has peaked at an all-time high, where every little detail, even insignificant ones, becomes part of content creation, leaving the players awkward over how they conduct themselves even during sessions.
Closed-door sessions are often used in modern-day sports.
“It’s not like they are doing something that has to be done away from the public’s eyes. The players often feel awkward with so many media houses focused on scrutinising unimportant details. I feel that the players are happy,” a member of the team management told The Daily Star.
The team management is also understood to be content with the situation as during the match-scenario training, players were put under different situations, and how they reacted to those could very well be used by opponents. Super Over scenario, for instance, was introduced this time around. The approaches of batters, bowlers, and fielders too were detailed in their enactment.
Such sessions, it is understood, could also be arranged in the future. The players will head for two days’ rest before beginning the second phase of their ongoing camp from August 20.
