Former Bangladesh national team captain Naimur Rahman Durjoy was appointed as the chairman of the High Performance (HP) Committee by the Bangladesh Cricket Board, which announced the new standing committees after the second board meeting of its recently elected panel yesterday.

During the previous term Naimur was replaced in his Cricket Operations Committee post by fellow former captain Akram Khan, who retained his role as the head of the committee.

A total of seven changes were made among the 21 standing committees, which include the women's, marketing and commercial, Dhaka Metropolis, Tournament Grounds and Umpire committees.

One of the major changes from the previous standing committee is Mahbubul Anam, the outgoing HP Committee chairman, replacing Hanif Bhuiyan as the head of the grounds committee. Bhuiyan however, was not named in any of the standing committees this time around

Sheikh Sohel was named chairman of the marketing and commercial committee in place of Kazi Inam, who replaced Gazi Golam Mortuza as head of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis. Meanwhile Mortuza was made chairman of the tournament committee.

Tanjil Chowdhury will lead the age-group tournament committee while Shaiful Alam Chowdhury Nadel skippers the women's wing. The Umpire committee, previously led by the late Nazmul Karim Tinku, will now be headed up by Saiful Alam Swapon Chowdhury. The head's of all the other committees remained unchanged, save the physically challenged committee which has been yet to be assigned a chairman.