COLOMBO: Bowling nice Muttiah Muralitharan and different former Sri Lanka cricketers and directors are in search of a courtroom order for the federal government to nominate an impartial committee to draft a brand new structure that can reform the working of the nationwide sport.
Former Take a look at opener Sidath Wettimuny and Michael Tissera, who performed for Sri Lanka within the inaugural 1975 World Cup and later turned supervisor, are amongst a gaggle of 12 who petitioned the courtroom.
The group additionally included Ana Punchihewa, Vijaya Malalasekera and Rienzie Wijetilleke, who’ve all headed the nationwide cricket board at numerous instances.
“The basis reason behind the decline of Sri Lankan cricket is its poor governance pushed by way of the flawed structure of SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket),” the petitioners stated in an announcement. “The stated structure has put in a board which isn’t impartial from its taking part in golf equipment.
“It’s severely conflicted between membership and nation. This technique encourages the workplace bearers to take choices principally to fulfill its voter base, inflicting the taking part in requirements of Sri Lankan cricket to deteriorate.”
Sri Lanka, with a inhabitants of twenty-two million, has 24 first-class cricket golf equipment with 147 votes electing the directors whereas India, with greater than a billion individuals, has a voter base of solely 38, the assertion added.
Since 2016, Sri Lanka has misplaced 118 out of 194 worldwide video games.
Following latest Take a look at sequence defeats towards South Africa and England, the board appointed a cricket committee led by former batting nice Aravinda de Silva.
Muralitharan, the all-time main Take a look at wicket-taker with 800 victims who retired in 2010, Kumar Sangakkara and Roshan Mahanama are additionally a part of the committee.
“Worldwide cricket is a small pond and cricket good points nothing to see one in every of its most storied full members, Sri Lanka, wither into oblivion,” the petitioners stated, whereas asking the International Cricket Council to offer time, house, experience and steerage for the creation of a brand new governance system.
Former Take a look at opener Sidath Wettimuny and Michael Tissera, who performed for Sri Lanka within the inaugural 1975 World Cup and later turned supervisor, are amongst a gaggle of 12 who petitioned the courtroom.
The group additionally included Ana Punchihewa, Vijaya Malalasekera and Rienzie Wijetilleke, who’ve all headed the nationwide cricket board at numerous instances.
“The basis reason behind the decline of Sri Lankan cricket is its poor governance pushed by way of the flawed structure of SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket),” the petitioners stated in an announcement. “The stated structure has put in a board which isn’t impartial from its taking part in golf equipment.
“It’s severely conflicted between membership and nation. This technique encourages the workplace bearers to take choices principally to fulfill its voter base, inflicting the taking part in requirements of Sri Lankan cricket to deteriorate.”
Sri Lanka, with a inhabitants of twenty-two million, has 24 first-class cricket golf equipment with 147 votes electing the directors whereas India, with greater than a billion individuals, has a voter base of solely 38, the assertion added.
Since 2016, Sri Lanka has misplaced 118 out of 194 worldwide video games.
Following latest Take a look at sequence defeats towards South Africa and England, the board appointed a cricket committee led by former batting nice Aravinda de Silva.
Muralitharan, the all-time main Take a look at wicket-taker with 800 victims who retired in 2010, Kumar Sangakkara and Roshan Mahanama are additionally a part of the committee.
“Worldwide cricket is a small pond and cricket good points nothing to see one in every of its most storied full members, Sri Lanka, wither into oblivion,” the petitioners stated, whereas asking the International Cricket Council to offer time, house, experience and steerage for the creation of a brand new governance system.
