SL appoint batting coach

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COLOMBO, Apr 19 (AFP): Former captain Marvan Atapattu has been appointed as Sri Lanka's batting coach, the cricket board said Tuesday. Atapattu, 40, joins interim coach Stuart Law for next month's tour of England, where Sri Lanka will play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20. Sri Lanka Cricket said it would name a full-time successor for Australian coach Trevor Bayliss after the end of the England tour. Bayliss ended his four-year stint in the wake of Sri Lanka's defeat to India in the World Cup final in Mumbai earlier this month. Atapattu's appointment comes a day after Tillakaratne Dilshan was named captain for the England tour following Kumar Sangakkara's resignation.