UPDATE: Paul Farbrace resigns as Sri Lanka’s head coach
April 22, 2014 02:33 pm
Sri Lanka’s national coach Paul Farbrace has tendered his resignation in order to take up an appointment as the assistant coach of the England cricket team, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed today.
“The National Coach Paul Farbrace tendered his resignation and has indicated to SLC of his unavailability to continue with SLC with immediate effect in order to take up an appointment with the ECB,” SLC said in an official statement.
Farbrace, who was only recently appointed Sri Lanka cricket coach, is to take up a position as assistant to Peter Moores, who has been appointed as new head coach of England team for five years by England and Wales Cricket Board.
Moores was named England’s head coach at Lord’s on Saturday morning, five years and three months since he left the job in January 2009 when he was sacked alongside Kevin Pietersen, while Paul Farbrace, the coach of Sri Lanka, is expected to link up England as a ‘‘senior assistant’’ imminently.
Farbrace, who only become Sri Lanka’s national coach in December when the incumbent Graham Ford left the job, is widely respected in the county game after stints coaching at Yorkshire and Kent.
He was assistant coach to Bayliss, the 51-year-old Australian who was also in the frame to replace Flower, when the pair worked for Sri Lanka and survived the terrorist attack on the team bus in 2009.
Farbrace, who like Moores was a low-profile county wicketkeeper, comes with the lustre of having led Sri Lanka to the Asia Cup and World Twenty20 titles in Bangladesh this month.
