Khaled Mahmud steps down as BCB director

Khaled Mahmud has resigned from his position as a BCB director on Wednesday. BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury confirmed the development. Mahmud, a former Bangladesh captain, becomes the latest board director to move on after Jalal Yunus and Naimur Rahman resigned over the past few weeks, and Ahmed Sajjadul Alam was removed from the post. Mahmud is understood to have informed the board through an email, bringing an end to his 11 years as a BCB director.

At the time of his departure, Mahmud was the BCB's game development chairman and cricket operations vice-chairman. Over the course of the last 18 years, Mahmud has had numerous roles in the BCB.

A few months after announcing his retirement as a player in 2006, Mahmud became Bangladesh's team manager. Three years later, he was appointed assistant coach under Jamie Siddons, followed by becoming a board director in 2013. Mahmud however continued to coach Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) and Dhaka Premier League (DPL) teams.

He returned as Bangladesh's manager in 2015, after which he also became a selector when then BCB chief Nazmul Hassan expanded the selection committee in 2016. Mahmud became Bangladesh's technical director after Chandika Hathurusinghe left the job in 2017, effectively also acting as the head coach in early 2018. His multiple roles raised a serious question of conflict of interest but Mahmud continued in these and many others.

He returned as Bangladesh's interim coach for an ODI series in Sri Lanka in 2019, and continued as Bangladesh's team director through to the 2023 World Cup, when he expressed dissatisfaction with the role for the first time.

In several roles, Mahmud has had a lot of success. He is known as one of the architects of Bangladesh's Under-19 World Cup win in 2020, when he was the game development head. As a coach, he won the BPL with Dhaka Dynamites in 2016, and several DPL titles with Abahani Limited including the 2023-24 season.

Mahmud played 12 Tests and 77 ODIs, winning Player of the Match in Bangladesh's famous win against Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup. He led Bangladesh in nine Tests and 15 ODIs, although the team never won a game under him. The closest he came was when Pakistan beat Bangladesh by one wicket in the Multan Test in 2003. It was also Mahmud's finest hour as a Test cricketer, taking match figures of 7 for 105.