Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paparich" data-source="post: 21947594" data-attributes="member: 561691">Charlie In the early 2000s, Mahela Jayawardene had a growing commercial diary and no means of managing it. The sports-management market, by that stage booming in some parts of the world, was barren in Sri Lanka. Muttiah Muralitharan and Sanath Jayasuriya had fruitlessly tried working with overseas companies, but there was nowhere obvious for Jayawardene to turn.So, like Compton all those years earlier, he called upon a journalist who had become a friend. Charlie Austin was then Sri Lanka country manager of Cricinfo and agreed to help Jayawardene on a part-time basis. Six months later Kumar Sangakkara called too. With more agency work coming in (Lasith Malinga joined the stable in 2005) and Jayawardene now national captain, Austin ceased writing in 2006, and then left Cricinfo not long after, the conflict of interest clear. A decade on, he has just about anyone worth managing in Sri Lanka on his books. Life as an agent has been good to Austin, who has other businesses too; Jayawardene is said to joke with team-mates that upon visiting Austin's house he realised he should have pursued management, not a playing career.Full article:<a href="http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/962335/the-rainmakers" target="_blank">http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/962335/the-rainmakers</a></blockquote>

Top Bottom