Sri Lanka\u2019s cricket board on Wednesday announced it was in talks to hire Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha subject to him securing a full release from his current contractual obligations.<\/p>\n
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Sri Lanka Cricket said its chief Thilanga Sumathipala wrote to his Bangladesh counterpart Nazmul Hassan expressing a desire to hire Sri Lanka-born Hathurusingha, reports AFP.<\/p>\n
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The board said it would offer the 49-year-old the position of head coach “subject to the full release of his contractual obligations” with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).<\/p>\n
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“There is no doubt that Hathuru (Hathurusingha) would be a great fit for us with the direction of both our short and long term goals,” Sumathipala said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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“I have written personally to the BCB informing him of our intention (to hire Hathurusingha).”<\/p>\n
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Sri Lanka wants him to groom the national team for the 2019 cricket World Cup, according to official sources.<\/p>\n
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Hathurusingha had said earlier this month that he was stepping down from the Bangladesh team after a disastrous tour of South Africa.<\/p>\n
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However, there was no word from the Bangladesh board if they had agreed for him to prematurely end his contract and join the team of his native Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
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Sri Lanka’s head coach post has been vacant since South African Graham Ford quit in June.<\/p>\n
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Under Hathurusingha, perennial minnows Bangladesh made rapid strides in world cricket, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy tournament in England this year.<\/p>\n
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But he came in for criticism during Bangladesh’s recent tour of South Africa, where the team failed to register a single win.<\/p>\n
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His contract with the Bangladesh Cricket Board was supposed to run until World Cup 2019 and made him one of the highest-paid cricket coaches in the world on $40,000 a month.<\/p>\n
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Hathurusingha played 26 Tests and 35 ODIs for Sri Lanka before becoming the assistant coach under Trevor Bayliss, a job he lost in 2010.<\/p>\n
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He went on to be appointed coach for Australia’s New South Wales side, landing the more lucrative Bangladesh job in May 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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