Dilruwan Jayarathne
Mahela Jayawardene has been appointed consultant coach of the Sri Lanka men’s senior team, as well as the men’s Under-19 and the Sri Lanka A teams for a period of one year, starting January 1, 2022.
A Sri Lanka Cricket press statement said that the former captain “will be in charge of the overall cricketing element of the national teams” and also provide “strategic support” for players and the management teams at SLC’s high-performance centre.
Happy to see the great man getting involved in the game but I was hoping he would not just jump in to this mess but insist his involvement would be conditional on fundamental changes to SLC administration. If not, like so many before him, he will just get thrown out with the bathwater in what is a politicians favorite looting ground. For example, there are some fundamental changes such as the 147 votes that elect the office bearers of SLC and the Minister having to approve the team selected by the selector the Minister appoints – if these basics don’t change we are doomed and there are not many opportunities to change these but Mahela could!