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Old August 2, 2014, 02:21 PM
jeesh jeesh is offline
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Default New Fielding & Spin Coach

http://www.thedailystar.net/sports/kalpage-coming-35574

Ruwan Kalpage set to return as fielding coach of Bangladesh. He was recently axed from his assistant coach position because SLC was not happy with the level of fielding (http://crichim.com/?p=1083). Although this move was highly criticized by local media.

I think this is once again Bangladesh's gain and Sri Lanka's loss. They will even lose Atapattu the way they are going. Kalpage is very familiar with Bangladesh having worked at academy, as fielding and spin bowling coach in the past. Has gained a lot of experience since leaving Bangladesh. I think he would definitely make big contributions once again under Hathurusingha.

Regarding Piyal Wijetunge, he has recently decided to quit his role as spin bowling coach of SLC. Although not exactly high profile he has been involved as a spin mentor at all levels-age group to national team, and has pretty much worked with all leading and emerging Sri Lankan spinners. I hope we can expand his duties beyond the national team and work with spinners even at grass root level, just like how he has done in Sri Lanka.

Its been reported, Sri Lanka's head of coaching Jerome Jayaratne is also resigning from his position. Jayaratne is a real development coach who has done a lot of below the surface work in the past decade. This role is probably a more expanded and wider role than the one played by Richard McIness. If we can somehow lure him into our setup we can be rest assured our future generation will be in good hands.
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