Rumoours were swirling around for sometime that Chandika Hathurusingha will become Bangladesh national team’s next coach once again. On Tuesday, a source at the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that Hathurusingha will in fact become the next coach of the Tigers.
Hathurusingha will sign a two-year contract with the BCB. The Sri Lankan is expected to arrive in Bangladesh on 20 February.
Hathurusingha was working as the assistant coach of Australia’s New South Wales team. New South Wales confirmed the news of his departure on Tuesday.
This Sri Lanka had two stints at New South Wales. The first stint was from 2011 to 2014. He quit that post to become the head coach of the Bangladesh national team.
Later, he also became coach of his native Sri Lanka. In 2020, he returned to New South Wales.
