Former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga has advised Pakistani players and team management not to have Australian Dav Whatmore as their new coach, sources said.
Ranatunga, who captained Sri Lanka to 1996 World Cup glory with Whatmore as the coach, is learnt to have given a "run-down" on the Australian when he had a chance meeting with manager-cum-coach Talat Ali in Scotland where the team had recently gone to play two one-day games, according to reliable sources in the Pakistan team.

"Ranatunga was asked for his opinion about Whatmore as he has worked for a number of years in the Sri Lankan team," one source said.

"Ranatunga during his talks with Talat and some senior players gave them a run down on Whatmore and eventually his advice was to avoid him," he added.

"Ranatunga did admit that Whatmore was coach when Sri Lanka won the 1996 World Cup but said the players had a big credit in this as well." When Whatmore was Sri Lankan coach he had problems with Ranatunga with both speaking out against each other publicly.

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