{"id":139129,"date":"2026-03-09T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=139129"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:35:13","slug":"gary-kirsten-appointed-sri-lanka-mens-team-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=139129","title":{"rendered":"Gary Kirsten appointed Sri Lanka men\u2019s team head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70722836\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Monday announced former South Africa international Gary Kirsten as the head coach of its men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten will take over from Sanath Jayasuriya, who had announced his exit after Sri Lanka\u2019s Super Eight exit in the T20 World Cup, from April 15 on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old last worked as a consultant with Namibia for the T20 World Cup. Kirsten\u2019s most successful stints as coach remain with India and South Africa. During his stint in India, he guided the team to an ODI World Cup title before getting the Proteas to the top of rankings in all three formats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong Kirsten\u2019s major responsibilities will be guiding the men\u2019s national team in its preparation for the ODI World Cup 2027, which will be held in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe,\u201d SLC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Mar 09, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/gary-kirsten-appointed-sri-lanka-mens-team-head-coach-jayasuriya-replacement\/article70722836.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Monday announced former South Africa international Gary Kirsten as the head coach of its men\u2019s team. Kirsten will take over from Sanath Jayasuriya, who had announced his exit after Sri Lanka\u2019s Super Eight exit in the T20 World Cup, from April 15 on a two-year contract. The 58-year-old last worked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1161228357_2_1_55COVF6M.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Ac1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}