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Atapattu named Sri Lanka batting coach

Former Sri Lanka captain, Marvan Atapattu has been appointed as the National team batting coach with immediate effect.

Marvan will be joining a strong coaching team comprising of Stuart Law, Champaka Ramanayaka, and Ruwan Kalpage for the forthcoming tour of England this summer, which includes three Test matches, five One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 games against hosts England this summer which gets underway next month.

Atapattu played 90 Tests and 268 One-Day Internationals in his illustrious career, and was recognised as a perfect technician with the bat.

Atapattu has scored 16 centuries in 90 Test matches which includes six double hundreds plus 17 half centuries. In the ODI arena, Atapattu aggregates 8529 runs in 268 ODIs with 11 centuries and 59 half-centuries.

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