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Kontouri on four weeks stint
Sri Lanka Cricket team’s former Physio Alex Kontouri is in Sri Lanka as a consultant to the team and on a special assignment to look into the fitness of the National team players.

Kontouri who was largely responsible for ensuring that Sri Lankan players were with minimum injuries during his tenure with the team is expected to be in the island for a few weeks.Despite Kontouri leaving the Lankan team a few years back most of the senior players like Muttiah Muralitharan,ChamindaVaas and Marvan Atapattu have been in constant touch with the Australian Physio whenever they are burdened with injury.

During his stay Kontouri is also expected to look into the fitness of the national players and give a report as to why some of the the Lankan players are lately plagued by frequent injuries.

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