Lasith Chaminda - serving Matara and Galle well as cricket coach
by Priyan DE SILVA - Matara Sports Corr.
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Lasith Chaminda - new found cricket coach.
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CRICKET: Sri Lanka Cricket's Galle District coach K.L.A. Lasith
Chaminda is sparring no pains to teach the cricketers in Galle and
Matara Districts the finer points of the game and the cricketers have
gained much knowledge about the game.
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A coaching camp in full swing... Lasith Malinga is coaching
both in Matara and Galle at a coaching camp. |
Sri Lanka Cricket appointed Lasith Chaminda as District Coach Galle
in September 2003 and transferred him as District Coach of Matara in
December the same year.
However ill luck dawned on Lasith as the tsunami disaster of 26th
December 2004 put a stop to cricket for two years, but the determined
Lasith Chaminda didn't give up coach, but kept to his job and he was
recalled to be the District Coach of Galle in December 2006, having
coached Mahinda College in 2005. Lasith passed his level II coaching
certificate examination in 2007 and he became the only level two
qualified district coach in the Southern Province.
Lasith has coached cricketers and they have come up with fine
performances. Romesh Buddhika, Denuwan Rajapakse and Kaushalya
Gajasinghe are cricketers of repute who were coached by him in their
junior days. Sri Lanka's ace paceman Lasith Malinga who joined Mahinda
College u 19 team earlier was also coached by Lasith Chaminda as both
were pace bowlers, though Chaminda was a left-armer.
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