{"id":23275,"date":"2023-11-10T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/icc-suspends-sri-lanka-cricket-over-political-meddling\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T17:58:43","slug":"icc-suspends-sri-lanka-cricket-over-political-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/icc-suspends-sri-lanka-cricket-over-political-meddling\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket over political meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka\u2019s crisis-ridden cricket board on Friday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was \u201cin serious breach of its obligations as a member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and to ensure that there is no government interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspension came a day after Sri Lanka\u2019s parliament asked the board to resign over allegations made by sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe that it had syphoned off millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions of the suspension will be decided by the ICC board later, it said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the indefinite suspension would affect Sri Lanka hosting the Under 19 World Cup in January.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the board, but an official source said an emergency meeting of the executive committee was scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will try to work out the way forward,\u201d the source said asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main concern is the upcoming 50-over Under-19 World Cup. Loss of hosting rights will be disastrous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka was preparing to host the 16-nation Under-19 World Cup and the board had released large sums of money to refurbish four venues in the capital Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis involving the cricket board \u2014 the richest sporting organisation in the bankrupt island country \u2014 came to a head after Sri Lanka\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1785828\">humiliating World Cup defeat<\/a> by India last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan parliament unanimously asked Sri Lanka Cricket\u2019s elected board members to resign on Thursday, accusing them of unprecedented corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The board has not yet responded to the parliament\u2019s non-binding resolution.<br \/>\nOpposition leader Sajith Premadasa said Thursday\u2019s move was a \u201chistoric resolution that sends a message to the world that Sri Lankan legislators have united to defend cricket and restore the integrity of the game\u201d.<\/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\/1787301\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The board is now locked in litigation after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1786905\">sacked<\/a> by the sports minister on Monday, only to be restored the following day by the Court of Appeal pending a hearing in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC has rules against political interference and has suspended Sri Lanka before.<\/p>\n<p>Ranasinghe had said on Friday before the suspension that he was hopeful that there would be no ICC sanctions against the local board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident we can talk to the ICC and sort things out,\u201d Ranasinghe said in parliament.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka\u2019s crisis-ridden cricket board on Friday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs. The game\u2019s world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was \u201cin serious breach of its obligations as a member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23276,"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:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275","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=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}