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Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya has been appointed as the top coach of Sri Lanka males’s cricket staff following the staff’s spectacular outcomes in opposition to India, England and New Zealand. Jayasuriya’s appointment has come into impact on October 1, 2024, and can stay till March 31, 2026. “The Government Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket made this resolution bearing in mind the staff’s good performances within the latest excursions in opposition to India, England, and New Zealand, the place Jayasuriya was in cost because the interim head coach,” Sri Lanka Cricket stated in an announcement.
His first task as head coach would be the upcoming limited-overs matches in opposition to the West Indies, in Dambulla and Pallekele.
The previous attacking batter, who had beforehand served because the cricket advisor of the SLC, was first appointed because the interim head coach of the boys’s nationwide staff July. He was entrusted the job by Sri Lanka Cricket for the reason that departure of English coach Chris Silverwood following a zig zag journey with the T20 World Cup catastrophe.
Underneath Jayasuriya’s steering over the previous few months, Sri Lanka gained their first bilateral ODI sequence in opposition to India in 27 years, defeated England away in a Check for the primary time in 10 years, and extra lately thrashed New Zealand 2-0 in house Assessments.
From 1991 to 2007, Jayasuriya performed 110 Check matches, amassing 6973 runs at a mean of 40.07 because of 14 a whole bunch and 31 fifties. The left-hander scored 13,430 runs at a mean of 32.36 in 445 ODIs 28 a whole bunch and 68 half-centuries. He performed an important function in Sri Lanka’s 1996 ODI World Cup victory.
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