Sachith Pathirana appointed Head Coach for Tamil Union

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Sachith Pathirana to take over Tamil Union Head Coach position

By Shamseer Jaleel

Former Trinity cricket “Lion”, national youth, national player, Badureliya CC Head Coach, under 19 spin coach, Jaffna Stallions spin coach and NSL spin coach of Jaffna, Sachith Pathirana took over the Head Coach position at Tamil Union recently. Sachith played for Trinity under 19 for nearly seven years and later on made his debut against Pakistan in 2015 at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. A year later at the same venue he made his T20 debut against the visiting Australian outfit. He played in 18 One Day games and five T 20 encounters for Sri Lanka before retiring pre-maturely to take up the coaching role.

He played for several leading clubs such as CCC, Ragama CC, Colts CC, Chilaw Marians and Baduraliya CC. Sachith who is an ICC (International Cricket Council) Level 3 coach took up the Head Coaching role at Badureliya CC.

Sachith looked after the under 19 spin bowling coach role for three years from 2019. He was involved and took the Jaffna outfit for two consecutive wins at the LPL (Lanka Premier League). Also a notable improvement in Sri Lanka under 19 camp is that in the last 20 encounter they have faced the spinners have destroyed the opposition teams with 122 wickets. This is including two home series against Bangladesh and England plus the Youth ICC under 19 Cricket World Cup which took place in West Indies recently.