{"id":135365,"date":"2023-07-01T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T22:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135365"},"modified":"2023-07-01T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T22:12:51","slug":"new-role-for-india-in-icc-administered-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/01\/new-role-for-india-in-icc-administered-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"New role for India in ICC administered Cricket\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna, the inventor of DRS, has revolutionized the game of Cricket.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cricket: England Accused of Racism, Sexism in Damning Report | Vantage with Palki Sharma\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXp6dXZQR-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India under Narendra Modi can play a bigger role in the Cricket world wherever there is racism, sexism, and the like in ICC-administered cricket. The recently released damning Report on racism in English cricket is equally true of similar types of racism and inequity on race-based grounds within the ICC. There is no mechanism within the ICC to entertain genuine complaints from both players and cricket fans, especially from the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A manifest wrong cannot be righted within the ICC. It can be done only by an external force. India must start showing the way by showing defiance of unfair decision-making at ICC. India must support Sri Lanka to gain international recognition for an invention that the entire Indian subcontinent and all the cricket-playing nations of the Indian subcontinent e.g. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka can be proud of i.e., Decision Review System ( DRS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DRS is based on the concept of &#8216; Player Referral &#8216; conceived by Senaka Weeraratna ( Sri Lankan lawyer) in 1997. Narendra Modi must start wearing a new mantle that is now appropriate to his new global role &#8211; to felicitate the high achievers ( from the Indian subcontinent ) who have broken new ground and world records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India was the Vishwa Guru of the World. The mother of invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be great PR for India all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna, the inventor of DRS, has revolutionized the game of Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna, the inventor of DRS, has revolutionized the game of Cricket. India under Narendra Modi can play a bigger role in the Cricket world wherever there is racism, sexism, and the like in ICC-administered cricket. The recently released damning Report on racism in English cricket is equally true of similar types of racism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}