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October 8, 2024
Sanath Jayasuriya, elevated to Head Coach, says working closely with players to maximising performance

Sri Lanka Cricket

By Srian Obeyesekere

Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka’s former iconic batsman who took one-day cricket to new heights by his new dimension over the top pinch hitting now adopted in world cricket short format power play mode, who was elevated yesterday by Sri Lanka Cricket by an unanimous decision of the Executive  as Head Coach in all three formats up to 2026, announced that his main priority was to get in place he best possible eleven in the respective formats to maximising winning ways by way of a close rapport to optimising performance by the very one to one communication as a local coach.

On the heels of his appointment as permanent National Head Coach officially announced by Sri Lanka Cricket’s Chief Executive Officer, Ashley de Silva, Jayasuriya, who had also served as chairman of selectors, while announcing that said, “My priority is to get the maximum results from the players by having the best possible team in the three formats where I do not have favourites while making a few changes in the white ball format.”

He echoed the importance of driving his formula of giving players the freedom to play their natural game while making the point that the recent successes by the test team where several test players were also in the white ball team was a positive factor of players having adopted to both the long and short formats of the game. Getting the basics right was a prerequisite without putting players under pressure. The recent swift success had been by his key approach of giving them that much of freedom to go out and perform driven by a clear bonding in communicating with him in tasking them on the job.

Jayasuriya emphasised the satisfactory results been derived by the hi-tech sophisticated modern facilities latent talent driving key twofold institutional engines in motion namely the High Performance Center headed by Jerome Jayaratne with Ruwan Kalpage and Tim MacCasskill and Brain Centre in effectively coordinating with him of driving the national development grid in operating a viable feed from the U19 youth cradle.

He singled out Pathum Nissanka and Kamindu Mendis for their exemplary performances in England and as much Dinesh Chandimal and skipper Dhananjaya de Silva.

He further revealed that the upcoming home T20 and ODI series’ against the West Indies were being looked at  to making a few changes of having test players to adjust to the white ball format.

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