Former World Cup winning batsman Asanka Gurusinha has been appointed as Chief Cricket Operations Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) taking overall charge of the High Performance Center, Brain Center and Women’s Cricket respectively with effective from 15 May.
Sri Lanka Cricket revealed at the press conference was held in SLC yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference held at SLC headquarters yesterday to make these announcements SLC president Thilanga Sumathipala said, “Gurusinha is an Australian level 3 qualified coach with a good technical knowledge to be the high-performance manager, which is our feeder system. The Cricket Board discussed this position and Gurusinha showed interest in undertaking it.”
Speaking further the SLC president said, “There are players who are getting injured at national level and take more than three months to recover, so our rehabilitation is faced with a fairly big situation.”
Sumathipala further said that “managing a team is not a bigger problem but when you come to players’ rehabilitation after injury it is a huge problem for us. Hathurusingha and Gurusinha worked together and we gave it a thought whether to separate them”.
“Gurusinha will have more responsibility than Simon Willis. With his experience of working with the national team as the team manager who knows exactly what the team’s requirements are, we believe with the World Cup coming up in a year, his role will help us to build our plan for our future goals.”
Gurusinha was appointed as cricket manager last year and also worked as a coach until Chandika Hathurusingha’s appointment as head coach.
SLC AGM on May 19
Sumathipala also revealed that the AGM of SLC would be held on May 19 and that according to the amended Sports Law he is liable to stand for elections for another two-year term.
Historical profit for SLC
Sri Lanka Cricket earned a net income of nearly Rs. 940 million with total revenue achieved standing at Rs. 1.38 billion from the recently concluded Nidahas Trophy series that involved India and Bangladesh.
“This is the first time Sri Lanka Cricket has been involved in such a historical profit through the Nidahas Trophy. A profit of Rs. 900 million has been reaped from total revenue of Rs. 1.38 billion. The SLC had already realized all the revenues generated with 90 percent of the funds being collected even before the tournament started,” said Sumathipala.
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