{"id":138405,"date":"2023-11-19T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138405"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:02:19","slug":"sports-minister-exposes-three-more-letters-from-slc-to-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/19\/sports-minister-exposes-three-more-letters-from-slc-to-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister exposes three more letters from SLC to ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Daily Mirror) &#8211; Three more leaked letters addressed to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay by SLC president Shammi Silva detailing Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe&#8217;s interference in decision-making processes as Sport Minister have resurfaced as part of the latest saga in the Sri Lanka Cricket situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a media briefing today, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said that Sri Lanka Cricket&nbsp; forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa revealed in Parliament that SLC&#8217;s letters to the ICC led to the country&#8217;s ban from international cricket earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/sharethis.svg\" alt=\"sharethis sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMPCPzAswoKvjAw?ceid=IN:en&amp;oc=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/images\/follow-google.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/breaking-news\/Sports-Minister-exposes-three-more-letters-from-SLC-to-ICC\/108-271580#\">A<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/breaking-news\/Sports-Minister-exposes-three-more-letters-from-SLC-to-ICC\/108-271580#\">A<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/breaking-news\/Sports-Minister-exposes-three-more-letters-from-SLC-to-ICC\/108-271580#\">A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_e9a0352467.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_21a5d8c98c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_e9a0352467.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_21a5d8c98c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_82a45ba999.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_e50bb46688.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_c88ed63722.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_b643710f8d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_2204fb9a28.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_ac4938b31a.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Three more leaked letters addressed to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay by SLC president Shammi Silva detailing Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138405","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=138405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}