Richards was the Sixers’ head coach when they won the CLT20 last year

When Corey Richards applied for the position of Bangladesh’s fielding coach, he did not realise that he would be given more than he had bargained for as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) also made him the interim batting coach of the national team.

The BCB have announced that they are still searching for a batting coach from England and are still waiting on applications, but admitted that it would still take some time before a suitable candidate is found.

“At the moment I will be looking after [the] batting,” Richards said. “It will be [a] dual role.

“I have done [the batting coach role] before. I am looking forward to mixing both roles in the side until the BCB tells me otherwise. I am just very excited to be here and work with this group of youngsters.”

Richards had been New South Wales’ batting coach for the past two years and an assistant coach to the Sydney Sixers for the same length of time.

Last year, Richards was the head coach of the Sixers when they won the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) in South Africa as regular coach Trevor Bayliss was coaching the Kolkata Knight Riders during the tournament.

“I haven’t had a technical role such as [being] the fielding coach before, but [when you are] the assistant or head coach of a team, you need to know [these] three fundamentals of the game,” Richards said. “Technically I haven’t had this title [at an international level] yet, but I have done a lot of work with the NSW team and the Sydney Sixers [in a similar role].

“I think I have got the requirements and experience to hopefully do a good job.”