Jurgensen named Tigers’ bowling coach

Shane Jurgensen has been appointed as the bowling coach of the Bangladesh National Team. The 35-year-old Australian is expected to arrive in Dhaka on Sunday to join the Tigers. “Jurgensen is a vastly experienced bowling specialist. He has also had an accomplished cricket career and his input would be extremely important for our cricketers. We have agreed on a contract which would see him with the Bangladesh Team up to June, 2013,” said BCB Chief Executive Manzur Ahmed. A right-arm fast bowler Jurgensen represented three states at first-class cricket, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia and holds two special achievements. He is the first cricketer in history to take 10 wickets or more in a Sheffield Shield Final back in March, 2002.

He was also the first to attain a First-class hat-trick at Bellerive Oval in March 2002. He had represented Australian Under-19 and Under-17 teams and attended Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence (Formerly Cricket Academy) in 1994. He was Tasmanian Player of the Year for the 2001-2002 season.

Jurgensen has coached for nearly 15 years at a number of different levels since his first trip to the UK with Horsham Cricket Club at the age of 21. He was the bowling coach for New Zealand Cricket Team from 2008 – 2010 and recently had been High Performance Coach with New Zealand Cricket's high performance programme.

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