All about the coaches of World Cup participating nations

#8 Ottis Gibson (South Africa)

Ottis Gibson.

Ottis Gibson is a former West Indian all-rounder whose career spanned from 1995 to 1999. During this time he could only play 2 Test matches and 15 ODIs.

Gibson started his coaching career afterwards. He was appointed as England's bowling coach twice. He acted as their bowling coach from 2007-2010 and 2015-2017. He also acted as West Indies head coach in the phase of 2010-2014.

In August 2017, South Africa appointed Gibson as their head coach until the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

#9 Chandika Hathurusingha (Sri Lanka)

Chandika Hathurusingha.

Chandika Hathurusingha was a Sri Lankan opener who opened the innings along with Roshan Mahanama in the early 90's. His career started in 1991 and ended after the 1999 World Cup with the advent of Sanath Jayasuriya as an opener. During this phase, he played 26 Test matches and 35 ODIs.

Hathurusingha was appointed coach of the United Arab Emirates in December 2005 on a one-year contract. He was named coach of Sri Lanka A in a three-year contract with Sri Lanka Cricket. In 2009, he was named senior assistant to Sri Lanka's national coach, Trevor Bayliss. He was a coaching consultant for the Canada national cricket team at the 2011 World Cup.

In May 2014, Hathurusingha was named as coach of the Bangladesh national side. Under his coaching, Bangladesh flowered as they won bilateral series against India, Pakistan and South Africa and even won the Test series against Sri Lanka in their own den. They reached into the semis of the Champions Trophy 2017 and got a direct qualification to 2019 WC.

On 9 November 2017, Hathurusingha resigned from coaching the Bangladesh team. On 8 December Sri Lanka Cricket announced that he will act as the head coach of the national side.

#10 Floyd Reifer (West Indies)

Floyd Reifer.

Floyd Reifer is a West Indian all-rounder. Reifer has played 6 Tests and 8 ODIs for the West Indies cricket team, spanning from 1997 till the 2009 edition of the ICC Champions Trophy.

In April, 2019 he was appointed as the head coach of the West Indies cricket team.