Marvan Atapattu relinquishes duty as cricket coach, on his own
Marvan Atapattu the leading coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket Team has resigned from his position. The Sri Lanka Cricket
Board has confirmed as having accepted his resignation.The sudden reason for the resignation of Marvan who undertook duties for the post of Coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket team last April in the year 2014 has not been stated by Marvan or the Sri Lanka Cricket Board either. Whatever it is, according to what cricinfo Website has reported, it is suspected that the continuous defeat of the team may have influenced his resignation. In fact during the period Marvan was engaged as the chief coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket Team the team had been able to win only one tournament and that was the one-day game against England in Sri Lankan soil towards the end of the year 2014. Four defeats out of 6 games have been recorded in Test match tournaments played here in Sri Lanka during the team was under his coaching.
The next cricket tournament the Sri Lanka Team is scheduled to participate in with is the West Indies in the middle of the month of October and it was understood that the Sri Lanka Cricket sub-committee would not make use of a chief coach in the sudden absence of Marvan and that Jerome Jayaratna would be in charge temporarily.