Sri Lanka’s national physio leaves his job for New Zealand – By Bipin Dani  Source : bdcrictime The 42-year-old former fast bowler, who played one first-class match for Victoria against India in 2003 became a physiotherapist after his playing days. He also had worked with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in the development department. He joined the Sri Lankan team in January 2021 and his 2-year contract with the SLC ends next month. During his tenure with the Sri Lankan team, he became very popular among players. It is learnt that Brett Harrop will be joining the New Zealand national squad, replacing Tommy Simsek from Dec. 1. Sunday’s second ODI against Afghanistan was his last assignment before he leaves for New Zealand on Wednesday. Incidentally, Harrop’s wife Gwen is also a renowned physiologist in New Zealand.  The reason for Harrop to return to New Zealand is understandable because the couple’s two children (11-year-old son Luka and daughter Amelie, aged ...

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SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS MAY 2022 Compiled by Victor Melder   Sri Lanka Cricket is planning to conduct Sri Lanka ‘A and Australia ‘A’ cricket series concurrently with Sri Lanka- Australia National cricket series from next June and its confirmed by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Chief Executive officer (CEO) Ashely de Silva yesterday. Australia’s National men’s cricket team will arrive in Sri Lanka to play all format cricket series which will work off from June 7 to July 12 while in this same period we have made arrangements to conduct Sri Lanka ‘A’ and Australia ‘A’ cricket series here. Sri Lanka ‘A’ cricket series itinerary has already finalized and it will announce very soon, said CEO Ashley de Silva. Earlier SLC has released their National cricket itinerary of the series against Australia. SLC CEO Ashley de Silva further said “We are in for some exciting cricket, especially considering that an ...

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Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: BCB set to do away with strict bio-bubble for the Test series Source:Crictracker The strict bio-bubbles have made lives complicated for cricketers ever since the deadly COVID-19 made an impact in early 2020. All the teams have been following strict protocols during these testing times while many players have also complained about how taxing it can be. In fact, there have been many instances of players pulling out due to the bio-bubble citing ‘fatigue’ with one of them being Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan. Now, it has been reported that in order to avoid such problems in the future, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided not to have any bio-bubbles for the upcoming bilateral series against Sri Lanka. Giving further clarification on the same, the BCB physician has said that they will only be undertaking the mandatory COVID-19 tests and nothing additional apart from that. ...

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