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Sri Lanka coach Geoff Marsh is aiming for first Test triumph in the post-Muralitharan era when they face Pakistan in a Test series next month.
"I am aim to take Sri Lanka to a new level," Marsh, the former Australian opening batsman, told reporters.
"Visibly, looking for the Test victory next to Pakistan is the aim."
Sri Lanka travels to United Arab Emirates, Pakistan's offshore venue, in October, to play a three-match Test series.
Sri Lanka has gone throughout a phase of nine Test matches without a win since Muralitharan retire after the first Test against India at Galle in 2010.
Marsh said Tom Moody, the fellow Australian and a former Sri Lanka coach, and Marsh's two sons, Shaun and Mitchell, urge him to take up the task.
"My boys said go down there and take up the job (coaching Sri Lanka)," Marsh, who witnessed Shaun scoring his debut Test century in Sri Lanka early this month, said.
"Sri Lanka is in exactly the same place as Australia," Marsh said, adding that both nations are going through change phase.
He said he was looking onward to the challenge of "coming up next to my own boys," referring to the view of Shaun and Mitchell Marsh playing for Australia when Sri Lanka tours there next year.
He said that though his present contract was incomplete to two years, he would like to coach Sri Lanka to the next World Cup to be played in Australia in 2015.
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