2018 Nidahas Trophy: Mahela Jayawardene to Mentor Sri Lanka Team

Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has accepted an invitation from Sri Lanka’s coaching staff to mentor Sri Lanka players at a training session in Colombo ahead of the Nidahas Trophy T20 tri-series.

Sri Lanka will host the Nidahas trophy to celebrate 70 years of their independence and will be looking forward to getting back to winning ways against the top sun-continent teams.

Both the sides have had the better of the Islanders in the recent times.

Moreover, they are even struggling with the fitness of some of their key players like Asela Gunaratne and limited-overs captain, Angelo Matthews.

Sri Lanka are in a transition phase, and the team has experienced an all-time low in terms of the results, especially in the shorter format.

Since the retirement of their two batting greats Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka have been unable to find some stability in their batting.

Current coach of Mumbai Indians, Mahela Jayawardene has now accepted the challenge and has decided to mentor the Sri Lankan team in the Nidahas Trophy.

Jayawardene has also worked as batting consultant for England and was the head coach of the Khulna Titans in the Bangladesh Premier League as well.

Sri Lanka’s manager Asanka Gurusinha told Cricbuzz,

“We asked Mahela whether he could come along and help us and he generously accepted the request. He has got enough experience both playing T20 cricket and coaching in T20 cricket. You cannot ask anyone better than him.”

“Today Mahela was talking to the boys about how they should go about playing T20 cricket,” Gurusinha explained. “Not much technical part of it, but just giving them some confidence and speaking on how they should go about playing the first six overs and stuff like that.”

Gurushina also said the Sri Lankan management would continue to look to former players for guidance. He said,

“Down the line, we will be using some of the other ex-players as well,” 

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