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.

Sri Lanka Cricket has sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford.

Sri Lanka Cricket has sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford.

SRI Lanka has sacked coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford as part of a major shake-up following the national team's poor run.

Jan 25, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Wednesday officially announced the appointment of the former South African coach Graham Ford as coach to guide Sri Lanka's national cricket team .

Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford as part of a major shake-up following the national team's poor run.

Sri Lanka Cricket has sacked its Aussie coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford.

Sri Lanka Cricket has sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford.

Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford as part of a major shake-up following the national team's poor run.

Sri Lanka fired Geoff Marsh as the national team's cricket coach on Wednesday only three months into his two-year contract, replacing him with former South Africa coach Graham Ford. Sri Lanka recently lost a test and one-day series in South Africa, and the coaching change appears to be part of a general overhaul with Tillakaratne Dilshan standing down as captain following a winless test series...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday sacked its Australian coach Geoff Marsh and replaced him with South African Graham Ford as part of a major shake-up following the national team's poor run.

Graham Ford has been confirmed as coach to the Sri Lanka national team replacing Geoff Marsh.   Sri Lanka Cricket sources said today that Mr.Ford earlier met with Sri Lanka Cricket officials to finalize his coaching contract. Former Australian Test opener Marsh was replaced just four months after taking over the top job in Sri ...

Jan 24, Colombo: The former South African coach Graham Ford has been confirmed as the coach of Sri Lanka's national cricket team , local media reported quoting Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) sources.

The Government Information Department says that Graham Ford will replace Geoff Marsh as coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket team

South Africa Graham Ford was named today as the new coach of the Sri Lankan national cricket team. He will replace Geoff Marsh who is among several officials to lose their spots as part of a major shakeup in Sri Lanka Cricket. Ford recently announced he was quitting as head coach of the Dolphins, the ...

Graham Ford has been confirmed as coach to the Sri Lanka national team replacing Geoff Marsh, SLC sources said today. Ford earlier today met with Sri Lanka Cricket officials to finalize his coaching contract.

By: Prasanna C. Rodrigo Jan, 24th, 2012 (News360.lk)  There are several reports which say Sri Lanka Cricket is planning to dump the national team’s coach Geoff Marsh and bring-in South Africa’s Graham Ford to take over the job. Graham Ford undoubtedly is a credible figure and has all the credentials to handle the job. However the question is ...

Graham Ford is scheduled to meet Sri Lanka Cricket officials this morning to finalize his coaching contract for the Lankan team, Sources told Ada Derana.

Sri Lanka coach Geoff Marsh will reportedly be replaced by Graham Ford after just five months in charge of the national set-up.

Colombo, Jan 22: Geoff Marsh's unimpressive four-month stint as Sri Lanka coach is almost over with the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) set to appoint former South Africa coach Graham Ford as the Australian's successor. Ford coached the Proteas for two

Sri Lanka Cricket are set to replace current coach Geoff Marsh with Graham Ford, the former South Africa coach, ESPNcricinfo has learned

City Council of Toronto, Canada's largest city issued a proclamation declaring January 2012 "Tamil Heritage Month," providing the opportunity "to showcase and share the community's vibrant culture and traditions and longstanding history with Toronto residents and visitors." Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford signed the proclamation on behalf of the City Council.

A group of robbers had attempetd to rob a Sri Lankan diplomat on her way out of the Southern Expressway's Baddegama exit point on Saturday night. The attempt was made...

“A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”- Walter Lippman During the last fifty years, our public service has been blessed with extraordinarily talented men and women, be in the field of law, medicine, politics, engineering or general administration. Some have shown almost ...

Justice C. V. Wigneswaran, former Judge of the Supreme court of Sri Lanka talks to ‘Daily Mirror’ on the current state of judiciary, countering human rights allegations leveled against Sri Lanka and the reconciliation process after the end of the war. Q: There is a widely held perception that the judiciary of this country is politicised and ...

‘He that spares the bad, injures the good’ - Thomas Fuller–Gnomologia ‘Are you going to hang him anyhow-and try him afterwards.’- Mark Twain-Innocents at Home The two foregoing statements by Thomas Fuller and Mark Twain depict two sides of the argument on the relevance of capital punishment. The recent murder of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra Presidential Advisor on Trade Union Affaires ...

OCTOBER 24, 2011:Just days after Sri Lanka’s chief diplomatic envoy to Australia former Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe was named in an extensive war crimes dossier now being deliberated upon by the Australian Federal Police,  its President Mahinda Rajapakse has been slammed with another war crimes suit – this time in Victoria, Australia. Already grappling with war crimes cases ...

Europol chief Rob Wainwright has warned the Sri Lankan government that the LTTE was making fresh attempts to revive terrorism in the island, ‘Divaina’ reports. He has said that extortion, drug trafficking and money laundering were taking place to sustain the LTTE terrorism. His warning has come following the arrest and interrogation of five LTTE activists, says the newspaper. ...

(Lanka-e-News -20.Oct.2011, 6.00PM) The blocking of the Lanka e news website from viewers and readers in Sri Lanka (SL) which was initiated by the Dialog Co. is now continuing with the Govt.’s Telecom Co. and the Mobitel which is....

The Sri Lanka Navy has teamed up with the US Navy for training. The purpose is to engage in counter piracy exercises. USS Ford is a United States Naval Ship which had reached the Galle Port on a goodwill visit. It arrived last afternoon. USS Ford is a guided-missile frigate with a length of 136 ...