Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has appointed Chandika Hathurusingha as the head coach of Bangladesh National Cricket team. Hathurusingha will coach Bangladesh Cricket team from July 1. Hathurusingha, the Sri Lankan will act as head coach of Bangladesh National Cricket team for two years.
President of BCB Nazmul Hassan Popon, MP disclosed this matter to the journalists on Monday.
Nazamul Hassan Papon said, “Although the agreement begins on July 1 this year, since we are playing against India next month, we are hoping he will arrive by June 10. We had a few alternatives apart from Chandika Hathurusingha. The first reason to choose him is his knowledge of subcontinental conditions. Plus he has worked in Australia and with the World Cup coming up, this is a good combination for us. Hathurusingha is among high-profile coaches from around the world, as far as I am concerned.”
Papon said, “We have appointed Mario Villavarayan as the strength and conditioning coach, also for two years. He will join us by the fifth or sixth of June. We are also looking for specialist coaches, especially fast bowling, spin and fielding. We are trying to [appoint someone soon], but I don’t think we will get everyone before the India series. We are communicating with them, because not all of them are full-time coaches, so we are trying to work out a time slot. We haven’t gone too far in this regard, so we don’t want to talk much about it.”
Earlier, head coach of Bangladesh Cricket team Shane Jurgensen submitted his resignation letter on April 28 and BCB accepted his resignation and released him from his post recently. After his resignation, Chandika Haturusingha’s , Michael Bevan and others were the list of coach of Bangladesh National Cricket team.
Chandika Hathurusingha played 26 Test matches and scored 1274 runs with an average of 29.62 while in 35 ODI’s he scored 669 runs with an average of 20.90 runs. In his five T20 career, he managed to cash 137 runs with an average of 45.66 runs.
As a bowler, he claimed 17 Test wickets conceding 789 runs with an average of 46.41 runs while in ODI, he captured 14 wickets with an average of 50.64 of runs and in the T20 cricket, he grabbed 3 wickets for 85 runs with an average of 28.33 runs.
Meanwhile, the BCB has appointed Mario Villavarayen as the national team’s Strength & Conditioning Coach. The 40-year old Sri Lankan had been serving as Sri Lanka Cricket’s strength and conditioning coach
since 2011. He had also performed the same role for Sri Lanka Cricket’ s development squads (from 2008 to 2010) and Sri Lankan Premier League side Uthura Rudras (2012) and Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers (2011).
Villavarayen is a former first class cricketer and has represented Sri Lanka A. He will join the Bangladesh National Team on a two-year contract. He is expected to arrive in Bangladesh in June before the start of the ODI series against India.
Hathurusingha, 45, began his cricket coaching career in 2005. He is a Cricket Australia and ECB Level 3 qualified coach with substantial international and first-class coaching experience. He is currently
the coach for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League and an assistant coach for New South Wales ‘Blues’. He was also the assistant coach for Australia ‘A’ and an Interim head coach for NSW ‘Blues’, consultant coach for the Sydney Sixes for Champions League T20 and consultant coach for Canada in the 2011 World Cup.
Between 2006 and 2010, he was a batting cum shadow coach to the Sri Lanka National Team for a period of 18 months and prior to that the head coach of the Sri Lanka A Team for three years. This followed a two-year stint as the head coach for the UAE National Team and several club-level coaching assignments in England, Sri Lanka and Australia.
