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Jerome Jayaratne named Sri Lanka temporary coach

Jerome Jayaratne, Sri Lanka Cricket's head of drilling, has been selected between time beginning mentor of the Sri Lanka collection for the up and coming home arrangement against West Indies. Jayaratne's agreement came four days after Marvan Atapattu had surrendered as the national group mentor.

Jayaratne was named SLC's head of training in 2008, a part that did not reach out to the national group honed at the time by Trevor Bayliss. Jayaratne has drilling declarations from Cricket Australia and the ECB, and already held the posts of supervisor instructing and in addition mentor of the SLC foundation squad. He additionally played 22 top of the line matches between 1990-91 and 1995-96.

Atapattu had stopped after Sri Lanka lost Test understanding to Pakistan and India, just the second time they have lost two home arrangement in a year. He had formally held the position following to September a year ago, yet had adequately been head mentor following April 2014, after Paul Farbrace's takeoff. Before that, Atapattu had filled in as batting mentor of the group subsequent to 2011.