The Sri Lanka Cricket’s government committee have taken authorized motion in opposition to the nation’s former World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga. The SLC has despatched Letters of Demand (LOD) of LKR 2 billion (INR 43.4 crore approx) for “loss of reputation”.
The SLC directors acknowledged that the choice was taken after “extensively deliberating” on a “false, derogatory and distorted statement” made by Arjuna throughout a current media interview.
The Statement additionally talked about that Arjuna “has spoken with malicious intent, damaging the goodwill and popularity of the SLC and have intentionally made public feedback by making false and defamatory accusations in opposition to the Executive Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket.”
The 58-year-old Arjuna, who’s the newly-appointed chairman of the National Sports Council led Sri Lanka within the 1996 version of the World Cup. Sri Lanka received the title after defeating Australia by seven wickets within the last on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.
He additionally led Sri Lanka within the 1997 Asia Cup, when the nation lifted the trophy after defeating India within the last. It was Sri Lanka’s 2nd Asia Cup title which got here after a spot of 11 years after 1986.
Under his captaincy, Sri Lanka secured their first ever historic Test victory on English soil in opposition to England which occurred to be in 1998.
In his profession, Arjuna has scored 7456 runs in 269 ODIs with 4 centuries, 49 fifties and a excessive rating of 131. He made his Test debut on the age of 18 in Sri Lanka’s inaugural Test match and is his nation’s first cricketer to attain a fifty in Test. In the 93 Test matches that he performed throughout his profession, he scored 5105 runs, with a excessive rating of 135 together with 4 a whole lot and 38 half-centuries.
