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Sports activities minister Harin Fernando on Wednesday introduced former opener Upul Tharanga as the brand new chairman of nationwide choice committee after accepting suggestions from the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). The five-member committee additionally has former gamers Ajantha Mendis, Indika De Saram, Tharanga Paranavitana and Dilruwan Perera on board. The brand new committee can be in vogue for 2 years and their speedy job can be to pick out the Lankan staff for the six-match white ball collection in opposition to Zimbabwe to be performed at Colombo between January 6 and 18. The reconstitution of the choice panel was necessitated after Lanka’s modest outing the ICC ODI World Cup the place they completed ninth on the 10-team desk with two wins and 7 defeats.
The sooner choice committee was headed by former pacer Pramodaya Wickramasingha who had made a slightly explosive allegation of “outdoors conspiracy” for Lanka’s poor outing efficiency within the marquee occasion held in India.
Later, the Worldwide Cricket Council had suspended Lanka from high stage cricket for political interference within the working of cricket, and likewise shifted the Beneath-19 World Cup to South Africa from the Island nation.
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