{"id":21781,"date":"2023-11-06T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/sri-lanka-sacks-cricket-board-days-after-world-cup-thrashing-by-india\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:30:03","slug":"sri-lanka-sacks-cricket-board-days-after-world-cup-thrashing-by-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sri-lanka-sacks-cricket-board-days-after-world-cup-thrashing-by-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka sacks cricket board days after World Cup thrashing by India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe sacked the national cricket board on Monday, days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1776556\">humiliating defeat<\/a> by India at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket \u2014 the richest sports organisation on the financially stricken island \u2014 for months over allegations of widespread corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s 1996 World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga has been appointed chairman of a new interim board, Ranasinghe\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSports minister Roshan Ranasinghe has formed an interim committee for Sri Lanka Cricket,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The new seven-member panel also includes a retired supreme court judge and a former board president.<\/p>\n<p>The move came a day after the board\u2019s second-highest officer, secretary Mohan de Silva, quit.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1786766\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ranasinghe publicly demanded the entire board\u2019s resignations after Sri Lanka\u2019s 302-run World Cup thrashing by hosts India last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka were at one point 14-6 and were all out for 55, the fourth-lowest World Cup total in history, while chasing India\u2019s 358 in Mumbai on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat prompted a public outcry and police have been deployed outside the board office in Colombo since angry protests on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ranasinghe had said that Sri Lanka Cricket officials had no moral or ethical right to remain in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should voluntarily resign,\u201d he said. He had previously accused the board of being \u201ctraitorous and corrupt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka play Bangladesh later Monday and need a mathematical miracle if they are to squeeze into the last four of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Ranasinghe wrote to full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) \u2014 which has rules against political interference in the sport \u2014 asking for understanding and support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSri Lanka Cricket has been besieged with complaints of player disciplinary issues, management corruption, financial misconduct and match-fixing allegations,\u201d Ranasinghe said in the letters, released to Sri Lankan media.<\/p>\n<p>The minister was forced by the ICC to withdraw a three-member panel he had appointed last month to investigate alleged corruption at the board after it was deemed to be political interference.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from the ICC to Ranasinghe\u2019s latest move, which dismissed a board that was elected in May, with president Shammi Silva on his third consecutive term.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka have not won the World Cup since 1996, with Ranasinghe blaming the board for the \u201cdeterioration\u201d of standards.<\/p>\n<p>Another cabinet minister, Prasanna Ranatunga \u2014 brother of the newly appointed interim board chairman \u2014 told parliament in August that the 1996 triumph had been \u201cthe biggest curse for our cricket\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney started flowing to the cricket board after 1996 and with that came those who wanted to steal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A former sports minister, Harin Fernando, introduced tough anti-corruption laws in 2019 after saying that the ICC considered Sri Lanka one of the world\u2019s most corrupt cricketing nations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe sacked the national cricket board on Monday, days after a humiliating defeat by India at the World Cup. Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket \u2014 the richest sports organisation on the financially stricken island \u2014 for months over allegations of widespread corruption. 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