Sri Lankan cricket goes by way of a giant disaster. The males’s cricket staff has underperformed within the Cricket World Cup 2023 for which they needed to qualify by taking part in within the qualifiers. Not to overlook, they’d been crushed by India earlier in Asia Cup 2023 ultimate. However, they have been nonetheless anticipated to do properly in Indian circumstances on the ODI World Cup. But the Lankans by no means confirmed any hearth all through the event. The incontrovertible fact that they’d many harm points didn’t assist them both.
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As their World Cup marketing campaign got here to a sorry finish with simply 2 wins from 9 matches, extra dangerous information got here their means. This dangerous information even impacts their girls’s cricket facet. The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended the Sri Lanka Cricket board. In a press launch, ICC mentioned that they have been taking this excessive step after seeing authorities interference in working of cricket affairs in Sri Lanka.
“The ICC Board met today and determined that Sri Lanka Cricket is in serious breach of its obligations as a Member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and ensure that there is no government interference in the governance, regulation and/or administration of cricket in Sri Lanka,” learn the ICC launch.
Suspension Notice: The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership of the ICC with rapid impact.
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Even earlier than Sri Lanka’s final league match vs England, the sports activities minister of Sri Lanka Roshan Ranasinghe sacked the entire nationwide cricket board after the poor present of the lads’s staff. However, the highest courtroom in Sri Lanka ordered a 14-day keep on the sacking, which suggests Shammi Silva continues to chair the Sri Lanka Cricket.
A report in ESPNcricinfo states that it was the SLC president Shammi himself who askd ICC to droop the board. The ICC board had met on-line on Friday (November 10) to debate interfernece of presidency in issues of Sri Lankan cricket. Shammi is in India for the World Cup. The ICC continues to recognise him because the president. The report additionally acknowledged that Shammi is prone to attend the ICC assembly in Ahmedabad after the World Cup ends.
Sri Lankan cricket is in a multitude in the mean time with political infights affecting the day-to-day working of the nationwide cricket board. It has resulted of their staff’s poor present on the sector. As a results of the poor World Cup 2023, some huge calls will must be taken from staff’s perspective, together with the brand new captain and the way forward for present head coach Chris Silverwood. But earlier than that, the Sri Lankan cricket board itself wants a reboot.
Not to overlook, Sri Lanka additionally faces a menace of shedding the spot within the Champions Trophy 2025 roster. The high 8 groups after the league stage on the World Cup 2023 factors desk, together with hosts Pakistan, will qualify for CT 2025. Sri Lanka are at the moment positioned at ninth place. Right now, they’re nearly out of Champions Trophy however their possibilities can enhance if seventh-placed England and eighth-placed Bangladesh lose their respective matches on Saturday by huge margin. The higher Net Run Rate (NRR) will take Sri Lanka to quantity 8.
Sri Lanka Cricket are the second Full Member of ICC to face suspension within the alst 4 years. Zimbabwe had been suspended earlier in 2019 for a similar motive. However, not like Zimbabwe, ICC goes sluggish on Sri Lanka and haven’t introduced the circumstances of the suspension but, leaving that to be revealed in rapid future. Sri Lanka shouldn’t have any cricket match until December they usually have been to not obtain any funds from ICC as properly this yr. Sri Lanka, nevertheless, hosts the ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup subsequent yr in January and February.Â
