Sri Lanka have appointed Anton Roux as their fielding coach, with impact from March 7, 2022. Roux has been appointed for this place with some quantity of expertise previous to signing up for his new position. Whereas he by no means performed for South Africa, he has featured in 4 first-class matches and as many Checklist-A video games.
The USA-born South African cricketer has additionally coached the Netherlands cricket crew from 2013 to 2016 and had additionally served because the assistant fielding coach of Nottinghamshire county. He’s at the moment the assistant coach of Otago in New Zealand home cricket. Taking all these experiences into consideration, Sri Lanka Cricket might need considered bringing him on board in an effort to strengthen their nationwide crew’s fielding performances.
In accordance with experiences in Cricbuzz, Anton Roux “will likely be in-charge of fielding throughout all nationwide groups and the Excessive Efficiency Heart.” The report additional states that “As a part of additional restructuring of the HPC, the Govt Committee additionally made appointments to the ‘A’, U19 and Rising groups.”
Former batter Avishka Gunawardene has been appointed as the top coach of the ‘A’ crew whereas, Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning member Upul Chandana has been named the fielding coach. Other than that, former participant Jehan Mubarak has been named the top coach of the U19 crew and Ruwan Kalpage has been provided an analogous position for the Rising crew.
After a string of disappointing performances, the island nation could be hoping to get again into rhythm within the second half of this 12 months with a few multi-nation tournaments developing. They might be keen to place their greatest foot ahead within the Asia Cup, which will likely be performed within the T20 format this time round as a gown rehearsal for the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 which is scheduled to be held in Australia from October 16 to November 13. Sri Lanka had suffered a whitewash within the away bilateral sequence in opposition to India earlier this 12 months.
Sri Lanka ‘A’ Group
- Avishka Gunawardene– Head Coach
- Thilina Kandamby – Assistant Coach
- Malinda Warnapura – Batting Coach
- Sajeewa Weerakoon – Bowling Coach
- Upul Chandana – Fielding Coach
Rising Group
- Ruwan Kalpage – Head Coach
- Ruvin Peiris – Assistant Coach
- Dharshana Gamage – Bowling Coach
- Dhammika Sudarshana – Batting Coach
Sri Lanka Underneath 19
- Jehan Mubarak – Head Coach
- Sampath Perera – Assistant / Batting Coach
- Chamila Gamage – Bowling Coach
- Gayan Wijekoon – Fielding Coach
