Cricket Australia has sent four coaches as part of their deal with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to educate local coaches through the Level Two Coaching Course but it seemed that their presence is forcing an adjustment for the rest.

With the Bangladesh team practising at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, the coaches were not given the surroundings for neither learning nor teaching. They were given makeshift spaces to cramp in their programme. That was seemingly tough on the foreign experts.

Led by CA's international development programme manager Ross Turner, the crew from Australia are trying their level best to give Bangladesh a coaching structure the country badly needs.

Former Australian fast bowler turned coach Andrew Zesers, Ashleigh 'Toot' Byron and Graham House are here to instruct the local coaches along with Turner.

"We are here to help layout the strategy and structure for the courses, resources that will help create the coaching system that will become self-styled at some point," said Turner.

"The target for this course is to create Masters, or for that matter Mentors, who can then in turn educate the Level Two coaches."

There is a strong correlation between coaching and playing but at the same time Turner mentioned that it is quite different as well. It actually depends on where you come from.

He however stressed on the fact that there are more cricketers in Bangladesh than say, in Australia and that creates the big problem: few coaches, more players.

"In Australia, there are 500,000 people who play cricket but only around 500 who are living on it -- that is professionally. Here, it is quite diverse in this regard as there are more professional players. It is pretty much a community effort in my country but here it is club-based, divisional, etc," said the top CA official.

Among the current group of coaches who are participating in Level Two, former national player Manjurul Islam has caught the Australians' eye.

"He is quite enthusiastic and looks to have a penchant for learning as well as giving it back," said Turner about the left-arm paceman who is active in domestic cricket.

But it was quite baffling to see some of the coaches missing because, it was learned, they opted out. But all of the current and former players, who were called up, were in attendance. The mentors' programme will begin on June 17.

Turner said that it would be difficult to coach the young players if one doesn't have a playing background. But at the same time, he drew the example of Australia's John Buchanan who was highly successful even though he had little game experience.

Turner acknowledged that educating the schools is the key to develop cricket but he feels that to facilitate this system, it will take some time because Bangladesh are competing against countries who have 150 years of cricket history.