Sri Lankan cricket officials awaited for a monumentally massive, unprecedented purse of Rs.16.5 billion for the year 2024.
That was the amount revealed by the president of Sri Lanka Cricket, Shammi Silva, at a Press briefing last week.
He said the ban imposed on Sri Lanka by the International Cricket Council (ICC) had deprived them of 50 million US dollars in income to be earned in 2024.
Silva also reiterated that SLC was a private company.
His reading of cricket administration also brought him more opponents or the remainder of the few who supported him who were left kicking their heels charging SLC with branding itself private but earning from a public product that belongs to the country and people.
The battle between Silva’s corruption-stained SLC and the Sri Lankan Parliament reached another level when former Sports Minister and now Opposition Law maker Dayasiri Jayasekera called for the replacement of Prof Ranjith Bandara the head of COPE, the body investigating financial misdeeds in public institutions, who he charged was aligned with cricket officials.
Bandara denied the charge.
“COPE has lost its credibility and should not be allowed to proceed any further,” declared Jayasekera.
