Pubudu Dassanayake has been reappointed as head coach of the Nepal men’s national team, Cricket Association of Nepal announced at the end of their board meeting held earlier today.
Dassanayake will fill the vacancy that opened up after Dav Whatmore stepped down from the position in September at the end of Nepal’s ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 matches in Oman.
Dassanayake has had a successful run as coach at the Associate level over the years.
From 2007 to 2011, he was with Canada, who he represented as a cricketer after migrating from Sri Lanka in 2001.
He helped the team qualify for their third straight ODI World Cup, and was then appointed as Nepal coach.
He was involved with the Nepal set-up from 2011 to 2016, guiding them from Division Four of the World Cricket League (WCL) to Division One, the WCL Championship, and to their first major ICC tournament, the 2014 T20 World Cup.
After that, he served as the head coach of USA for just under three years, before resigning in July 2019.
As a cricketer, Dassanayake, now 51, played 11 Tests and 16 ODIs as a wicketkeeper for Sri Lanka between 1993 and 1994, before Romesh Kaluwitharana became the preferred keeper for the national team.
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