DHAKA, Feb 28, 2023 (BSS)- Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha opened up on the personal rift between team's two biggest stars-Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal, saying that he doesn't' see any problem in it as long as it doesn't make any bad impact on the team performance.

"I have been on the job for seven days. I have been in dressing rooms and I have been in teams where everyone don't get along. Still, when they step out, they play as a team," Hathurusingha said here today.

"When you play for your national team that's what you expect. You don't need to be best of friends to go out and have dinner. As long as it is not affecting (team's performance), I don't see it as a problem," he said.

The personal problems between Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal became a hot topic ever since the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon revealed that the duo's strained relations ruined dressing room atmosphere.

He said that the biggest problem of the Bangladesh team is grouping, the atmosphere in the dressing room is not good. And all this happened because of the personal rift of Shakib and Tamim.

In response, Tamim said he has not seen any grouping in his 17 years long career and the deterioration of his personal relationship with Shakib doesn't affect the team's performance which is evident in Bangladesh's success in the last five or six years.

However, BCB president also changed his tone after Tamim's reply. He said yesterday that he heard all these from the media. And about grouping, he said he also didn't see anything like this.

Hathurusinghe said that such a topic on the eve of the series is not ideal.

"I am not going to talk much at all as I have been around for seven days. They have been playing good cricket lately, so my job is to see what they are doing. Their process to be successful. If it is working well, I don't need to say something. I will probably observe in the first two games, then take it from there," he added.