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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
BY YOHAN PERERA AND AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- A sum of USD 50,000 donated by Asian Cricket Council chief Jay Shah and USD 5,000 given by Indian cricket star Siraj for the ground staff of Pallekele and R. Premadasa stadiums have not been paid yet, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
BY AJITH SIRIWARDANA AND YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that he will look into the three letters that were sent by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to the International Cricket Council (ICC). The President requested Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to send him the three letters and assured […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Parliamentary Business has agreement to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the irregularities in Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), under a co-chairmanship of the ruling parties and the opposition. This was decided on during the meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business this evening (20) chaired by Speaker Mahinda […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, November 20, 2023 – The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership, have sparked a public […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror (Daily Mirror) – Three more leaked letters addressed to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay by SLC president Shammi Silva detailing Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe’s interference in decision-making processes as Sport Minister have resurfaced as part of the latest saga in the Sri Lanka Cricket situation. During a media briefing today, Sports Minister […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on 07 November 2023, during a media briefing which is currently being held in Colombo. […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today revealed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Shammi Silva had sent a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) alleging that the Sports Ministry had made undue interferences in its activities and claimed that this had paved the way for the […]
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Friday, November 17th, 2023
Fawz Mohammed (Dinamina) Courtesy: ‘Silumina’ December 17, 2022 ඔහු නමින් සේනක වීරරත්නය. හෙතෙම ප්රවීණ නීතිඥයෙකි. ලේඛකයෙකි. චින්තනවාදියෙකි. ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් පිටියේ දැඩි අවධානයට ලක් වූ ලිපියක් වසර 1997 මාර්තු මාසයේ 25 වැනිදා ‘දි ඔස්ට්රේලියන්‘ පුවත්පතේ පළ විය. ‘third umpire should perform role of appeal judge‘ ශීර්ෂ පාඨය යටතේ පළ වූ එම ලිපියෙහි සඳහන් වූයේ ඒ වන විට […]
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Friday, November 17th, 2023
Daily News Editorial ( Feb. 11, 2010} In 1997 a Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna proposed the use of aThird Umpire in an appellate capacity with powers to entertain anddecide upon appeals from a player dissatisfied with the decision of anon-field umpire. Twelve years later after much debate and discussion in the cricketworld, the ICC […]
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Friday, November 17th, 2023
BY YOHAN PERERA AND AJITH SIRIWARDANA COLOMBO (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe had a discussion with Asian Cricket Council president Jay Shah on Thursday to discuss the cricket crisis in Sri Lanka, Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said today. He told this in Parliament while responding to a claim by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa alleging that Jay […]
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Friday, November 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government, expressing its regret, has condemned the statements targeting the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah, ICC officials and other ICC member countries. Taking into X (formerly Twitter), Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the government is committed to hosting and […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island Until 1977, when Kerry Packer set up the World Series Cricket (WSC) tournament, Australia and England took turns to hold the mantle of being the world’s top test-playing team; during this period, the West Indies did, on occasions, challenge the order of supremacy but were never able to be […]
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Monday, November 13th, 2023
RAJENDRA PRASAD MOHAPATRA Courtesy OdishaTV Ranatunga’s comment came days after the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended SLC for excessive political interference. Former Sri Lanka World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has blamed BCCI secretary Jay Shah for running and ruining Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Ranatunga’s comment came days after the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended […]
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Monday, November 13th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe has filed a motion requesting the lifting of the stay order issued by the Court of Appeals preventing the operation of the seven-member Interim Committee appointed by him for the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the relevant gazette notification issued by him in this regard. The motion including […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලයේ සභාපති ඉම්රාන් කවාජා ඇතුළු ප්රධානීන් පසුගිය වසරේ නොවැම්බර් මසදී මෙරටට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදීත් ක්රිකට් සඳහා දේශපාලන මැදිහත්වීමක් පිළිබඳව සාක්ෂි සොයාගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ බව සුප්රකට ක්රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය අනාවරණ කරනවා. එම අනාවරණය සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීමට ජාත්යන්තර […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනම් කළේ ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටීම නිසා බව ක්රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම තහනම ලැබීම ගැන පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ තිරිසනුන් සතුටුවෙමින් සාද පවත්වා ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කරන්නේ අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ශ්රී […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has alleged that Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Jay Shah was responsible for the issues plaguing Sri Lankan cricket. In an interview posted on YouTube, Ranatunga alleged the close connection with officials […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana World Cup-winning former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, expressing his views regarding the suspension imposed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has called for a comprehensive investigation into the matter. Ranathunga further highlighted that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to stand by his commitments against corruption and launch a […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
By Nirmala Kanangara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cricket fans who gathered near Sri Lanka Cricket a few days ago stage a protest demanding a shake-up in the sport’s administration following the disastrous performance of the national team at the ongoing cricket World Cup, being held in India. (Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshana) After the special audit […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ක්රිකට්වලින් ලැබුණු ඩොලර් මිලියන හයක් විදෙස් ගිණුම්වල ගිණුම් ගත කර ඇති බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස ප්රකාශ කර තිබෙනවා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ කොළඹ අද (11) පැවති වැඩසටහනකදීයි. දූෂිත ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලයට එරෙහිව සියලුදෙනා පෙළ ගැසිය යුතු බවයි විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා කියා සිටියේ. ක්රිකට්වලින් ඉපයූ ඩොලර් මිලියන 6ක් මෙරටට ඇවිත් නැහැ”
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ලංකාවේ ඇති දූෂණ ක්රිකට් ආයතන සියල්ලම විසුරුවා හරින බව ක්රිඩා අමාත්ය රොෂාන් රණසිංහ පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් කරන ලද්දේ අද (11) ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයේදී කැඳවා තිබූ විශේෂ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාව අතර තුරදීයි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු ප්රකාශ කරන ලද්දේ මෙවැනි අදහසක්. ” මහනුවර කිව්වොත් ක්රිකට් හොර ගුහාවක්. මහනුවර ක්රිකට් හොරුන්ගේ පාරාදීසයක්. […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් අද (10) මෙරටට පැනවූ ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය අත්හිටුවීමට අදාල ඉල්ලීම සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශම්මි සිල්වා ප්රමුඛ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය බවට සුප්රසිද්ධ cricinfo වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරනවා. එමෙන්ම ICC මණ්ඩලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් නියෝජිතයින්ට නිරීක්ෂකයෙකු ලෙස සහභාගී වීමට අවසර දී ඇති බැවින් අහමදාබාද්හි පැවැත්වෙන ICC රැස්වීම් සඳහා ශම්මි සිල්වාද […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
Nagraj Gollapudi and Andrew Fidel Fernando https://www.espncricinfo.com/ The decision was taken following a tumultuous week in the SLC after Sri Lanka’s poor performance at the World Cup Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been suspended by the ICC with immediate effect because of extensive government interference in the board’s administration. Though the ICC has termed the […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
lanka C news ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනමක් පනවා ඇත්තේ ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සලයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය කර ඇති ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව යයි ක්රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ සභාපති ශම්මිද සිල්වා විසින් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇති බවද එම අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් සිකුරාදා දින පැවති රැස්වීමටද ක්රිකට් සභාපති ලෙස […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket over political meddling (Daily Mirror) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka’s crisis-ridden cricket board yesterday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs. The game’s world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was “in serious breach of […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will be handed over to former captain Arjuna Ranatunga for a brief period for the task of rebuilding if SLC is suspended by the ICC, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said today. “We will hand over the task of […]
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