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Sa'adi Thawfeeq
September 29, 2011
Sri Lanka's new coach, Geoff Marsh, said he was eager to extend his two-year contract with Sri Lanka cricket and help them win another World Cup. Former drummer of Australia and the coach takes over from another Australian, Trevor Bayliss, who retired at the end of the 2011 World Cup in April, after coaching the team in Sri Lanka for four years .
"If the Sri Lanka cricket want to extend my contract until the 2014 World Cup in the open end of my talks," Marsh said Thursday after officially took over as head coach of Sri Lanka. "At the moment, it is a two-year contract and we have not spoken to arrival. Hopefully the World Cup is something I like to win by two (as a player and coach), but my immediate goal is prepare the team for the next test match is against Pakistan next month. "
Marsh, 52, was a member of the Australian team that won the World Cup in 1987 and was coach of Australia, when he won the World Cup in 1999. He said he will treat all three formats of the game - Test, one-day cricket international and Twenty20 - the same thing.
"We got to sit in the back down and plan the Test Cricket, ODI cricket and T20 cricket is not a favor. Apparently, the World Twenty20, it is important, but the most important game to play next is the first test against Pakistan, this is exactly what we are targeting. " Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates next month. They will host the ICC World Twenty20 in September 2012.
Pune Marsh coached the Warriors in 2011, IPL and said to the Sri Lanka job was a way to return to international cricket. "I retired from Zimbabwe and I had a break just to spend some time with my own two boys. In recent years I had this hunger to return to her and my two boys I said 'get out there and the coach. "
"Being a good friend of Tom Moody, he said it was a great place to go. To participate in the Sri Lanka Cricket has been a great experience for him. This is how it all began. He was always in the back of my mind that if I took an advisory role had to be out of Australia because it is a conflict of interest with the coach of my children (Shaun and Mitchell) in the state and Cricket Australia. When you look around the world, Tom always said that this was a great place to come with the coach and the people are great. That's what it is
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