Course for level one cricket coaches

S. M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy sports correspondent

CRICKET: Sri Lanka Cricket will conduct a three-day course for level one cricket coaches from the Central Province at Kandy Cricket Academy along Srimath Cuda Ratwatte Mawatha, Elephant Bath, Kandy on Wednesday February 28.

This course will be conducted by Central Province cricket coach Sunil Fernando and he will be assisted by district coaches Chaminda Kodikara, Bernard Perera, Migara Ekanayake, S. Katthik, and the Uva Provincial cricket coach Piyal Wijetunga.

This cricket coaching course is being conducted with a view of providing cricket coaching qualifications to the cricket coaches and in the future only the cricket coaches with qualifications will be permitted to handle the coaching of school cricketers. At present no qualification is laid down to coach a cricket team.

The Central Province cricket coach Sunil Fernando said that the Sri Lanka Cricket in conjunction with the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association will make arrangements for only cricket coaches with qualifications to engage in cricket coaching, so that the correct technique could be imparted to the young cricketers as the coaching techniques have changed over the years and we must keep with the times.