Bangladesh’s strength and conditioning coach Mario Villavarayan has resigned from his position to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).

Mario had submitted his resignation on January 29 and it is learnt that the upcoming home series against Zimbabwe will be his last series with Bangladesh. The Sri Lankan who was appointed by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) back in 2014 feels that this offer from SRH is too good to refuse.

“Yes, I have resigned. I have got an offer from Sunrisers Hyderabad and it's too good an opportunity for me to say no. Definitely I will miss Bangladesh. It's been six great years,” Mario told Cricbuzz on Thursday (30 January).

According to BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury, Mario wanted to stay and just wanted a leave during the IPL, but according to BCB rules, they cannot allow their coaches to join an IPL team.

“We have three years agreement with Mario and he had to work full time with the national cricket team,” Chowdhury said.

“He is looking forward to work in the IPL but we cannot allow any of our full time coaching staff to work in IPL as we can have series or camp at that point of time. So we decided to part ways on mutual understanding,” he added.

(With Cricbuzz inputs)