COLOMBO (Reuters) - South African Graham Ford has been appointed as the new coach of Sri Lanka on a two-year contract, a Sri Lanka cricket official said on Thursday. "Ford has signed a two-year contract and his first assignment is to take the team to Australia for the Commonwealth Bank one-day series," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Roads Bring Development Roads, bring forth with it development, Sujeewa Mudalige, senior partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers Sri Lanka, an audit firm, told this reporter. Mudalige, who holds other key appointments such as being the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, said that he has impressed upon Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith ...

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