{"id":157177,"date":"2026-07-07T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157177"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:47:25","slug":"jay-shahs-demands-on-fair-play-in-cricket-governance-in-sri-lanka-contradicts-his-own-cover-up-of-a-massive-fraud-by-iccs-legal-team-that-overlooked-the-1997-player-referral-blueprint-to-avo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/07\/07\/jay-shahs-demands-on-fair-play-in-cricket-governance-in-sri-lanka-contradicts-his-own-cover-up-of-a-massive-fraud-by-iccs-legal-team-that-overlooked-the-1997-player-referral-blueprint-to-avo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Shah&#8217;s demands on fair play in cricket governance in Sri Lanka contradicts his own cover up of a massive fraud by ICC&#8217;s legal team that overlooked the 1997 &#8216;Player &#8211; Referral&#8217; blueprint to avoid paying royalties to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy:\u00a0 AI Overview<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Jay Shah wants Sri Lanka to clean the house and hold SLC elections while ICC engages in a massive cover up of the fraud of its legal team depriving Sri Lanka of due credit for authorship of Player &#8211; Referral and concomitant royalties that can heavily fund Sri Lanka&#8217;s Cricket development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Player-Referral (DRS) Authorship Dispute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parallel to governance talks, an intense intellectual property dispute continues to gain traction within South Asian legal circles regarding the true authorship of the <strong>Umpire Decision Review System (DRS)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Core Claim:<\/strong> Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna widely publicized the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/05\/29\/south-african-lawyer-david-beckers-negligence-and-oversight-of-fundamental-principles-of-law-as-a-legal-adviser-of-the-icc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Player-Referral&#8221; blueprint in global media starting in 1997<\/a>\u2014predating the ICC&#8217;s eventual rollout of the system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Alleged Malpractice:<\/strong> Critics accuse former and current ICC legal advisors, including David Becker, Jonathan Hall, and David Richardson, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/06\/07\/what-action-will-the-icc-take-against-the-three-lawyers-who-engaged-in-blatant-malpractice-leading-to-growing-tension-between-icc-and-sri-lanka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overlooking the Doctrine of Constructive Notice<\/a> and suppressing evidence to block Sri Lanka from receiving authorship credit. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/06\/05\/icc-liable-for-professional-criminal-negligence-and-fraud-for-deliberate-misrepresentation-of-fact-on-drs-authorship-claims\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/06\/07\/what-action-will-the-icc-take-against-the-three-lawyers-who-engaged-in-blatant-malpractice-leading-to-growing-tension-between-icc-and-sri-lanka\/\">2<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Institutional Silence:<\/strong> Legal advocates argue that the ICC is engaged in a defensive cover-up to avoid massive civil liability, punitive damages, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/06\/29\/icc-potential-rewards-for-invention-of-player-referral-in-cricket-drs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retroactive royalty payouts<\/a> that could otherwise fund local cricket infrastructure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Call for Action:<\/strong> Advocates are continually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/05\/27\/sri-lankan-inventor-of-player-referral-drs-entitled-to-national-recognition-and-due-honours-from-the-govt-sri-lanka-and-slc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lobbying the Sri Lankan Government and SLC<\/a> to officially honor Weeraratna at a national level to formally force the ICC&#8217;s hand into a diplomatic or legal resolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/ZVVUzBlh8gioZKNoF\">https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/ZVVUzBlh8gioZKNoF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy:&nbsp; AI Overview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy:\u00a0 AI Overview Jay Shah wants Sri Lanka to clean the house and hold SLC elections while ICC engages in a massive cover up of the fraud of its legal team depriving Sri Lanka of due credit for authorship of Player &#8211; Referral and concomitant royalties that can heavily fund Sri Lanka&#8217;s Cricket development The [&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-157177","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\/157177","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=157177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157178,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177\/revisions\/157178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}