Meachen to coach Sri Lanka team

The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union has appointed New Zealander Ellis Meachen as the coach of the national team.

Meachen is an experienced coach who has moulded the Romanian national team into a formidable outfit and has also been in charge of the New Zealand under 21 team in the role of Technical Advisor. He is a coach with a proven track record and his presence will benefit the Sri Lanka national team immensely, said the Secretary of the SLRFU Shane Dullewa.

He has been contracted for a period of four months and his task will be to coach the Sri Lanka national 15-a-side team for the Asian Five Nations Tournament in April and May this year. He will train the 63-member national pool from which the final 22-member squad will be picked for the matches against United Arab Emirates on April 23 and Hong Kong on May 7 in Colombo and the two away games against Kazakhstan on May 14 and Japan on May 21.