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Sri Lanka's dismal show successful the T20 World Cup mightiness trigger an overhaul of the country's cricket board, with Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage saying connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) that an interim committee to "rebuild" the crippled is nether consideration.
Sri Lanka were knocked retired of the tourney aft losing each their Super Eight games.
"Discussions are underway with the ICC [International Cricket Council] to manus implicit the medication of SLC [Sri Lanka Cricket] to an interim committee to rebuild the sport," Mr. Gamage told reporters.
Current SLC president Shammi Silva's tenure is till May 2027.
Prior to their Super Eight crash, Sri Lanka had mislaid to lower-ranked Zimbabwe successful the preliminary round. The SLC office saw a nationalist protestation past week demanding the resignation of the Silva administration.
The Minister said President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is besides progressive successful the ongoing talks with the ICC.
"We can't hazard having a prohibition again from the ICC truthful indispensable bash everything successful concurrence with the ICC," Mr. Gamage said, referring to the past sanctions that the state has copped.
In 2024, the ICC suspended Sri Lanka's rank erstwhile the past Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe sacked Mr. Silva based connected corruption allegations.
The ICC had besides shifted the 2025 Under-19 World Cup successful Sri Lanka to South Africa, citing authorities interference successful the functioning of the sport.
Sri Lanka's sports instrumentality of 1973 allows the Sports Minister to subject sports bodies.
Mr. Gamage said the authorities was keen to rebuild the crippled to the pre-2014 levels erstwhile Sri Lanka was a apical planetary performer.
The land federation was the 2014 T20 World Cup champion too being a runner-up successful 2 different erstwhile editions.
Mr. Gamage besides appealed to the nationalist to refrain from castigating the players for mediocre performance.
Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka, aft the ouster from the World Cup, had complained astir the disapproval that the players had been coping with and urged the authorities to curb the "negativity".
