Lasith Malinga joins Sri Lanka’s coaching panel

The Sri Lankans will play three Twenty20 and five ODIs against Cricket Australia at home next week. The Australian cricket team has already reached Sri Lanka for that purpose. Before the start of the series, the Sri Lankan Cricket Board has resorted to the country’s legendary cricketer Lasith Malinga to improve the tactical aspects of pace bowlers. As an expert coach, he will work with the bowlers on strategic aspects. 

The Sri Lankan cricket board said Malinga would be the bowling coach for two series. Sri Lankan cricket is confident that Malinga’s vast experience and skill in death bowling, especially in the T20 format, will go a long way in helping the team in this crucial series.

Malinga has been a member of the Sri Lankan coaching panel before. The cricket board took him on as a bowling coach during a tour of Australia last January. Despite losing the T20 series 4-1 in that tour, the bowlers’ performance was satisfactory. So again, the board has added this white ball legend to the coaching panel. The Sri Lankan board hopes that his death bowling skills and experience in T20 will help the team’s pacers.

In his playing career, he played 30 Tests, 226 ODIs and 84 T20I matches in the Sri Lankan jersey. Malinga is one of the four bowlers to take 100 wickets in the International Twenty20. He has a unique record of scoring multiple hat-tricks in 20 overs international cricket. He is also one of the three bowlers to take 4 wickets off four balls.