{"id":67833,"date":"2017-07-14T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T23:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67833"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T23:19:38","slug":"2011-world-cup-final-india-vs-sri-lanka-match-was-fixed-says-ranatunga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/14\/2011-world-cup-final-india-vs-sri-lanka-match-was-fixed-says-ranatunga\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 World Cup Final: India vs Sri Lanka match was fixed, says Ranatunga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I was also in India giving commentaries at the time. When we lost, I was distressed and I had a doubt,” Ranatunga said. “We must investigate what happened to Sri Lanka at the\u00a02011\u00a0<\/a>World Cup final.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“I cannot reveal everything now, but one day I will. There must be an inquiry.”<\/span><\/div>\n

Former Sri Lanka skipper\u00a0Arjuna Ranatunga\u00a0<\/a>today demanded an investigation into the country’s\u00a02011\u00a0<\/a>World Cup final\u00a0<\/a>defeat by India amid allegations of match fixing.<\/p>\n

Ranatunga, 53, in a video posted on his Facebook page, said he was shocked by Sri Lanka’s six-wicket defeat in the final at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Without giving names, Ranatunga said players could not hide the “dirt” with their clean white cricket clothing.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka, batting first, scored 274-6 off 50 overs and appeared in a commanding position when Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar was caught for 18. India turned the game dramatically thanks partly to poor fielding and bowling by Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Local media have raised suspicions of Sri Lankans throwing the match, but there was no formal call for an investigation till Ranatunga’s outburst.<\/p>\n

Ranatunga’s spokesman Thamira Manju told\u00a0AFP<\/em>\u00a0that he was writing to President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe complaining about the state of cricket in the country.<\/p>\n

There have been recriminations in the country since Sri Lanka suffered a humiliating 3-2 loss to bottom-ranked Zimbabwe in a five-match one-day series on home soil this month.<\/p>\n

There is also growing tension between Sri Lankan\u00a0sports\u00a0<\/a>authorities and players about the use of managers, including an agent who represents more than half the national team.<\/p>\n

Sports\u00a0<\/a>Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera has said he wants to regulate agents in cricket in a bid to prevent the possibility of one individual fixing matches using a network of players under his management.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Former skipper Kumar Sangakkara, who led Sri Lanka in the 2011 World Cup defeat, has publicly defended his manager, a foreign national, who is also an agent for many other local players.<\/p>\n

Last year, the International Cricket Council imposed a three-year ban on a top Sri Lankan official Jayananda Warnaweera for failing to cooperate with an anti-corruption investigation.<\/p>\n

Warnaweera, a former Test player who was facing a two- year domestic ban over allegations of involvement in match- fixing, failed to attend interviews with an ICC anti- corruption unit.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan players and umpires have been accused of match fixing in the past, but Warnaweera was the high ranking official to be found guilty and penalised.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka’s cricket board suspended a fast bowling coach and sacked a part-time employee for their alleged roles in approach to two Sri Lankan players to arrange a defeat by West Indies at Galle in October 2015.<\/p>\n

An unnamed man linked to a bookmaker had offered the two players some 10 million rupees (around $70,000) to lose the match.<\/p>\n

Betting is illegal in most of the cricket-mad Indian subcontinent, but backstreet bookmakers — many with underworld links — still flourish.<\/p>\n

Although no big-name Sri Lankan player has ever been convicted of corruption, several former stars have made allegations of match fixing or spot-fixing — when players deliberately bowl or field badly to give away a set number of runs.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Courtesy\u00a0business-standard.com “I was also in India giving commentaries at the time. When we lost, I was distressed and I had a doubt,” Ranatunga said. “We must investigate what happened to Sri Lanka at the\u00a02011\u00a0World Cup final.” “I cannot reveal everything now, but one day I will. There must be an inquiry.” Former Sri Lanka skipper\u00a0Arjuna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833","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=67833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}