Stuart Law: In cricket-coach limbo

As Sri Lanka move towards the climax of the Test series against England, their interim coach, Stuart Law, is finding it ever more difficult to watch from the wings, says Simon Briggs, writing in the Daily Telegraph.

“It’s very painful,” he [Stuart Law] says. “You say your piece to the team, you try to instill confidence in them but I’d rather be able to show them — to say ‘watch me’. That’s what I tried to do as a senior player.” Evidently Law is still learning about the peculiar limbo occupied by the cricket coach — that unfortunate soul who must bowl every ball and play every shot from his vantage point on the pavilion balcony.