The Sri Lankan government cleared the way for the national cricket board committee to be elected for the first time in seven years in line with International Cricket Council (ICC) rules.
Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said he was dissolving Sri Lanka Cricket’s interim managing committee and hoped there would be elections before the end of the year. Interim committees appointed by the government have run cricket in Sri Lanka for the last seven years, prompting allegations of political interference. The ministry has promised that it would abide by a new ICC directive requiring all national boards to be elected independently by June 2012.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2011.
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