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Sanath Jayasuriya was named Sri Lanka’s head cricket coach on Monday, replacing Chris Silverwood who resigned following the country’s early exit from the T20 World Cup.
Jayasuriya, 55, had been in caretaker charge since June and was on Monday named full-time coach until March 2026 after recent successes including a Test match victory in England and a 2-0 home sweep of New England. Zeeland.
“The Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee has taken this decision, taking into account the team’s good performances in the recent tours against India, England and New Zealand,” the Sri Lanka Cricket Committee said Lanka in a statement.
Under Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka also won a one-day international series against India for the first time in 27 years.
Former Sri Lanka captain Jayasuriya was considered one of the greatest international batsmen of all time and played a pivotal role in winning the 1996 World Cup.
Jayasuriya has represented Sri Lanka 586 times across all three formats of the game, hitting 42 centuries and taking 440 wickets. He played his last international match in 2011.
The former national coach also had contact with the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption unit and was banned from all forms of cricket for two years in 2018.
Jayasuriya was indicted for failing to hand over his cell phones and was accused of obstructing or delaying any investigation into corruption in the game.
He is also a former lawmaker and former deputy postmaster general.
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