{"id":155984,"date":"2026-04-30T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155984"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:41:03","slug":"new-cricket-reform-committee-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/30\/new-cricket-reform-committee-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cricket Reform Committee Appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/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=\"New Cricket Reform Committee Appointed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrNjmiuHX0Q?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>Cricket lovers have a new opportunity to appeal to the New Cricket Reform Committee to give due priority to promoting Sri Lanka as the home of the Player Referral system (DRS) and extend long overdue official recognition to the author of the Player &#8211; Referral&nbsp;concept lawyer Senaka Weeraratna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mass resignation of Shammi Silva and Ex Co \u2013 Way open now to SLC under new leadership to prioritize demand for recognition of the groundbreaking&nbsp;\u2018Player Referral\u2019 system (DRS) as a Sri Lankan innovation by ICC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OwbMcS7BOm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/29\/mass-resignation-of-shammi-silva-and-ex-co-way-open-now-to-slc-under-new-leadership-to-prioritize-demand-for-recognition-of-the-groundbreaking-player-referral-system-drs-as-a-sri-lankan-i\/\">Mass resignation of Shammi Silva and Ex Co &#8211; 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Referral&nbsp;concept lawyer Senaka Weeraratna.&nbsp; see Mass resignation of Shammi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155984","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\/155984","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=155984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155985,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155984\/revisions\/155985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}