Piyal wijetunge

Sri Lanka Cricket: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has said that newly appointed national coaches Julian Wood and Rene Ferdinands will work alongside existing support staff members Thilina Kandamby and Piyal Wijetunge on a rotational basis with the men’s side.

The move signals a shift in SLC’s high-performance strategy, with coaching roles now shared across national squads, including age-group and women’s teams. “All these coaches, they are not being specified to say that they would be working with the national team. They work as the national coaches, but that does not mean they should work (solely) with the (men's) national team.

"Across the board, there are national teams, no? So on a rotational basis, tour by tour, we will decide who will be joining the teams. That's how the high-performance centre operates now,” SLC CEO Ashley de Silva was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo on Thursday.