Sri Lanka Cricket has sacked the national cricket selection committee
ahead of ICC World T20 which begins with the qualifiers on Tuesday March 08,2016 in
India.
The sacking comes in the wake of the national team’s poor performances in the just-concluded Asia Cup in Bangladesh and the preceding bilateral series in India.
In January2016, Sri Lanka had also lost its no 1 ICC Twenty20 ranking after they lost to New Zealand.
The sacking of selectors was part of a recent action by the new Thilanga Sumathipala headed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) administration to shore up the sagging fortunes of the team.
Former batsman Aravinda de Silva will lead the new panel.
He has been joined by the recently retired Kumar Sangakkara, his 1996 World Cup winning teammate Romesh Kaluwitharana and Lalith Kaluperuma, a former chairman of selectors who had played in Sri Lanka’s inaugural Test match in 1982
Ranjith Madurasinghe, who was also a Test player in the mid 1980s, is the fifth member of the panel.
They will replace the Kapila Wijegunawardena headed committee appointed in April 2015.
The sacking comes in the wake of the national team’s poor performances in the just-concluded Asia Cup in Bangladesh and the preceding bilateral series in India.
The sacking of selectors was part of a recent action by the new Thilanga Sumathipala headed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) administration to shore up the sagging fortunes of the team.
Former batsman Aravinda de Silva will lead the new panel.
He has been joined by the recently retired Kumar Sangakkara, his 1996 World Cup winning teammate Romesh Kaluwitharana and Lalith Kaluperuma, a former chairman of selectors who had played in Sri Lanka’s inaugural Test match in 1982
Ranjith Madurasinghe, who was also a Test player in the mid 1980s, is the fifth member of the panel.
They will replace the Kapila Wijegunawardena headed committee appointed in April 2015.
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