NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka’s sports activities minister, Roshan Ranasinghe, made a major transfer on Monday by sacking the nationwide cricket board shortly after the nation’s humiliating defeat by India on the World Cup. This determination follows months of battle between Ranasinghe and Sri Lanka Cricket, the wealthiest sports activities organisation within the financially strained island, over allegations of widespread corruption throughout the board.
To guide a brand new interim board, Ranasinghe has appointed Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning captain. The newly shaped seven-member panel additionally features a retired supreme court docket decide and a former board president.
This growth got here on the heels of the resignation of the board’s second-highest officer, secretary Mohan de Silva, a day previous to Ranasinghe’s motion.
Sri Lanka’s devastating 302-run loss to India final week on the World Cup, the place they had been at one level 14-6 and in the end dismissed for a mere 55, prompted a public outcry. Police have been deployed outdoors the board workplace in Colombo following indignant protests on Saturday.
Ranasinghe, publicly expressing his displeasure, had demanded your complete board’s resignations, accusing Sri Lanka Cricket officers of missing the ethical and moral proper to stay in workplace. He had beforehand labelled the board as “traitorous and corrupt.”
In response to the World Cup defeat and allegations of corruption throughout the board, Ranasinghe had written to full members of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), in search of understanding and assist, regardless of the ICC’s rules in opposition to political interference within the sport.
“Sri Lanka Cricket has been besieged with complaints of participant disciplinary points, administration corruption, monetary misconduct, and match-fixing allegations,” Ranasinghe acknowledged within the letters, which had been launched to Sri Lankan media.
It is price noting that the ICC had compelled Ranasinghe to withdraw a three-member panel he had appointed final month to analyze alleged corruption throughout the board, deeming it as political interference.
Because the newly appointed interim board chairman, Arjuna Ranatunga, takes cost, it marks a major shift from the earlier board, which was elected in Might, with President Shammi Silva on his third consecutive time period.
Sri Lanka has not gained the World Cup since 1996, and Ranasinghe holds the board liable for the “deterioration” of cricketing requirements. Notably, one other cupboard minister, Prasanna Ranatunga, brother of the newly appointed interim board chairman, had beforehand acknowledged in parliament that the 1996 World Cup triumph had been “the largest curse for our cricket.” He attributed the inflow of cash into the cricket board after 1996 as an element that attracted people with intentions to have interaction in corrupt practices.
In 2019, former sports activities minister Harin Fernando had launched stringent anti-corruption legal guidelines, stating that the ICC thought-about Sri Lanka one of many world’s most corrupt cricketing nations. The continued controversy inside Sri Lankan cricket highlights the challenges confronted by the game within the nation.
(With inputs from AFP)
To guide a brand new interim board, Ranasinghe has appointed Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning captain. The newly shaped seven-member panel additionally features a retired supreme court docket decide and a former board president.
This growth got here on the heels of the resignation of the board’s second-highest officer, secretary Mohan de Silva, a day previous to Ranasinghe’s motion.
Sri Lanka’s devastating 302-run loss to India final week on the World Cup, the place they had been at one level 14-6 and in the end dismissed for a mere 55, prompted a public outcry. Police have been deployed outdoors the board workplace in Colombo following indignant protests on Saturday.
Ranasinghe, publicly expressing his displeasure, had demanded your complete board’s resignations, accusing Sri Lanka Cricket officers of missing the ethical and moral proper to stay in workplace. He had beforehand labelled the board as “traitorous and corrupt.”
In response to the World Cup defeat and allegations of corruption throughout the board, Ranasinghe had written to full members of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), in search of understanding and assist, regardless of the ICC’s rules in opposition to political interference within the sport.
“Sri Lanka Cricket has been besieged with complaints of participant disciplinary points, administration corruption, monetary misconduct, and match-fixing allegations,” Ranasinghe acknowledged within the letters, which had been launched to Sri Lankan media.
It is price noting that the ICC had compelled Ranasinghe to withdraw a three-member panel he had appointed final month to analyze alleged corruption throughout the board, deeming it as political interference.
Because the newly appointed interim board chairman, Arjuna Ranatunga, takes cost, it marks a major shift from the earlier board, which was elected in Might, with President Shammi Silva on his third consecutive time period.
Sri Lanka has not gained the World Cup since 1996, and Ranasinghe holds the board liable for the “deterioration” of cricketing requirements. Notably, one other cupboard minister, Prasanna Ranatunga, brother of the newly appointed interim board chairman, had beforehand acknowledged in parliament that the 1996 World Cup triumph had been “the largest curse for our cricket.” He attributed the inflow of cash into the cricket board after 1996 as an element that attracted people with intentions to have interaction in corrupt practices.
In 2019, former sports activities minister Harin Fernando had launched stringent anti-corruption legal guidelines, stating that the ICC thought-about Sri Lanka one of many world’s most corrupt cricketing nations. The continued controversy inside Sri Lankan cricket highlights the challenges confronted by the game within the nation.
(With inputs from AFP)
