“Give Me 2 Days To Disclose…”: Sri Lanka Chief Selector On World Cup ‘Conspiracy’

Chief Selector Pramodaya Wickramasinghe on Friday alleged that Sri Lanka’s disastrous present on the ongoing ODI World Cup was a end result “of a conspiracy from outside”. The Sri Lankan cricket workforce returned residence early Friday morning from India after their five-wicket loss within the final group stage match towards New Zealand in Bengaluru. Pressed for causes for the poor efficiency, Wickramasingha, a member of the World Cup-winning 1996 workforce, mentioned: “give me two days to disclose everything about it. This was the result of a conspiracy from outside.

“It may be very unhappy, I’m taking accountability,” he informed reporters on the airport.

Sri Lanka recorded their worst World Cup efficiency since 1992, successful solely two of their 9 video games.

The former champions had been marred by a collection of accidents, warranting replacements exterior the unique squad. That even led to a change of captaincy mid event.

Their disastrous present towards India, the place they had been all out for 56, triggered a backlash at residence.

The sports activities minister then fired the governing physique, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) which was then reinstated by the court docket of attraction, thus additional deepening the disaster state of affairs.

On Thursday, a joint authorities and opposition decision in parliament demanded the resignation of the SLC’s administration.

The authorities, which is break up over the minister’s resolution to sack the SLC board of administration, got here out with a report, recommending a model new structure for the governing physique with a brand new voting construction to nominate workplace bearers.

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