Mario Villavarayan who worked as the Strength and Conditioning coach of the Bangladesh cricket team for six years has resigned from his post to join SRH in the IPL. Mario was appointed by the BCB in 2014 and has since worked as trainer with the men's team. The Sri Lankan has already submitted his resignation and the home series against Zimbabwe will be his last assignment with the national cricket team. ''Yes I have resigned,'' Mario told Cricbuzz on Thursday (January 30). ''I have got an offer from Sunrisers Hyderabad and it's too good an opportunity for me to say no,'' he said. ''Definitely I will miss Bangladesh. It's been six great years,'' he said.
Mario was willing to continue with his role with the Asian Tigers provided the board allows him to work simultaneously with the Sunrisers franchise during the IPL. However, BCB is believed to have said no to such a plan as they have T20s against Ireland at that point of time."We have three years agreement with Mario and he had to work full time with the national cricket team," Chowdhury said."He is looking forward to work in the IPL but we cannot allow any of our full time coaching staff to work in IPL as we can have series or camp at that point of time. So we decided to part ways on mutual understanding,'' he said.
