Air Commodore Ajith Jayasekera Takes Over Duties as Team Manager

Air Commodore Ajith Jayasekera submitted his resignation on Thursday, July 18, to the Hon. Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports, as a Member of the Interim Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, in order to take up the post of Manager of the Sri Lanka team.

Air Commodore Jayasekera takes over his duties as Manager from today, Friday, July 19, 2002, for a period of two years. Air Commodore Jayasekera earlier served as Manager of the Sri Lanka team from December 2000 up to January 2002, which included tours abroad to South Africa, New Zealand and twice to Sharjah, as well as Test series at home versus England, India, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe, the Asian Test Championship Test versus Bangladesh, and triangular tournaments involving New Zealand and India, and West Indies and Zimbabwe.