Sri Lanka Title Ian Bell As Batting Coach for England Tour

Former England participant Ian Bell was named Tuesday as Sri Lanka’s batting coach for the three-match Check collection towards England. Sri Lanka Cricket mentioned the 42-year-old former right-hand batter was employed to attract on his expertise of taking part in 118 Checks for England. “We appointed Ian to herald an individual with native information to assist the gamers with key insights on the circumstances there,” Sri Lanka Cricket chief govt Ashley de Silva mentioned. “We consider his inputs will assist our staff on this essential tour.” Sri Lanka appointed former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya final month to switch head coach Chris Silverwood, who stop following the nation’s early exit from the T20 World Cup.

Jayasuriya, 55, would be the “interim” coach till a full-time appointment is made for the nationwide staff.

Jayasuriya represented Sri Lanka 586 occasions throughout the three codecs of the sport, hitting 42 centuries and taking 440 wickets. He performed his final worldwide in 2011.

Former England coach Silverwood, 49, stop for “private causes”, in accordance with Sri Lanka Cricket.

Sri Lanka gained just one match on the T20 World Cup match, towards the Netherlands, and completed third of their group behind South Africa and Bangladesh.

Silverwood took over in April 2022 and loved quick success when Sri Lanka gained the T20 Asia Cup that 12 months.

Sri Lanka then reached the ultimate of the 50-over Asia Cup in 2023.

Nonetheless, they did not make it to the knockout phases of the T20 World Cup in 2022 and final 12 months’s 50-over World Cup.

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