Cricket Sri Lanka appoints Chris Silverwood as new head coach for men's national team

Sri Lanka on Saturday announced the appointment of former England men's team head coach, Chris Silverwood as the head coach of their senior national men's team on a 2-year contract. Silverwood's first assignment with Sri Lanka will be a 2-Test series in Bangladesh in May.

Silverwood was sacked by England after Joe Root's men were hammered 0-4 in the Ashes in Australia earlier this year. Sri Lanka have been without a full-time coach after Mickey Arthur left the role in November last year.

Silverwood was appointed as Head Coach of England’s



Men’s team in October 2019, having previously been the England Men’s bowling coach working under then Head Coach Trevor Bayliss when England won the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019.

Silverwood played six Tests and seven ODIs for England and played county cricket for Yorkshire and Middlesex.

The 47-year-old English tactician had a tough job in hand as Sri Lanka are on a slide across all formats of the game. The islanders were outclassed 2-0 in a recently-concluded Test series in India following before which they were blanked 3-0 in a T20I series.