Sri Lanka stick to Law before naming new coach

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will not name a successor to head coach Trevor Bayliss until
after the tour of England which starts next month.

Sri Lanka Cricket interim committee chairman DS de Silva said because of the time factor they had appointed Stuart Law as interim coach for the England tour.

Law was assistant to Bayliss, who quit as head coach after four years at the end of the World Cup, where the Sri Lankans lost to hosts India in a dramatic final earlier this month.

Law, a former Australian cricketer, is one of four coaches short-listed by Sri Lanka Cricket to succeed Bayliss.

The other three coaches in the running for the top job are former coach Tom Moody, former assistant coach Trevor Penney and Mathew Maynard, the former England cricketer presently director of cricket at Glamorgan.

De Silva said that Penney and Maynard would be invited shortly to come to Sri Lanka and make a presentation.

Former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu has also been approached by Sri Lanka to become the national team's batting coach.

Sri Lanka play a series of three tests and five one-day internationals on the tour of England.