Cricket: Bangladesh sacks Ruwan Kalpage

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has terminated its contract with Ruwan Kalpage after failing to report to duty according to international reports. 

It is reported that the BCB has terminated the contract of assistant coach Kalpage after he failed to turn up for work by August 16. 

According to BCB official Kalpage has failed to respond to an official letter sent to him asking to report for duty after voicing his concerns over his safety in Dhaka.

"We had sent him a letter asking him to return to work by August 16, but he didn't respond to us. So the BCB has terminated his contract," Jalan Yunus had told international reporters. 

Kalpage was given a deadline of August16 to return to Bangladesh after head coach Chandika Hathurusingha, strength and conditioning coach Mario Villawarayan and fielding coach Richard Halsall returned to work during the first week of August.

The coaching staff of the Bangladesh cricket team, consisting of foreigners, had made concerns over their safety in the country's capital Dhaka. 

The BCB had assigned a security officer for the coaching staff earlier and with the concerns security was strengthened further. 

The BCB, stating that Kalpage's claim wasn't the right assessment of the situation, sent a notice last week to return to work.

Kalpage joined the Bangladesh coaching staff as assistant coach on a two-year contract in August 2014, after the appointments of Hathurusingha and Villawarayan and were given extension until the 2019 World Cup. 

Kalpage was the head coach of Bangladesh's National Cricket Academy from 2008 to 2010.