{"id":22673,"date":"2023-11-08T23:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/sri-lanka-court-restores-sacked-cricket-board-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T23:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T23:33:05","slug":"sri-lanka-court-restores-sacked-cricket-board-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sri-lanka-court-restores-sacked-cricket-board-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka court restores sacked cricket board – Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The court accepted a petition by board president Shammi Silva challenging minister Roshan Ranasinghe\u2019s move on Monday to dismiss the Sri Lanka Cricket board and appoint an interim committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restoring of the board is for two weeks, when the court will hear the case again,\u201d a court official said.<\/p>\n

It is the latest twist in a months-long struggle between Ranasinghe and the cricket board, which is the richest sports organisation on the financially stricken island.<\/p>\n

Ranasinghe has accused the board of widespread corruption and his sacking of its members came days after the national men\u2019s cricket team were thrashed by India at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

As Tuesday\u2019s court decision was read out, members of the interim committee headed by former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga were seen driving out of the Sri Lanka Cricket offices.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Ranatunga, the country\u2019s 1996 World Cup winning skipper, who took over just the day before vowing to clean up the board and revive cricket in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

\u201cSri Lanka Cricket had become known as the most corrupt institution in the country,\u201d he said on Monday. \u201cI want to change that image.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government has also appointed a cabinet committee headed by foreign minister Ali Sabry to address \u201coutstanding issues\u201d of the cricket board.<\/p>\n

There has been no comment so far this week from the International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body, on the deepening crisis.<\/p>\n

The ICC has rules against political interference and previously suspended Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Last month the sports minister was forced to withdraw a three-member panel to investigate the board after the ICC considered it interference.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Ranasinghe wrote to full members of the ICC asking for their understanding and support.<\/p>\n

\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

\u201cI would like to emphasise that interim measures will only be taken to establish good governance principles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka have not won the World Cup since 1996, with Ranasinghe blaming the board for the \u201cdeterioration\u201d of standards.<\/p>\n

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

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka\u2019s Court of Appeal quashed the sports minister\u2019s decision to sack the country\u2019s crisis-ridden cricket board and restored the expelled officials on Tuesday pending a full hearing. The court accepted a petition by board president Shammi Silva challenging minister Roshan Ranasinghe\u2019s move on Monday to dismiss the Sri Lanka Cricket board and appoint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sri-Lanka-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}