{"id":104765,"date":"2013-09-11T01:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=104765"},"modified":"2013-09-11T01:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:36:56","slug":"scandals-in-sri-lanka-cricket-vote-to-change-the-game-online-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/scandals-in-sri-lanka-cricket-vote-to-change-the-game-online-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandals In Sri Lanka Cricket: Vote To Change The Game &#8211; Online Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Sri Lankan cricket fans are calling for unity to end corruption in the country&#8217;s cricketing administration, that has been rocked by scandal, financial mismanagement and personal agendas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A petition has been launched calling on President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> to &#8220;liberate&#8221; cricket from the power grip of a few dubious individuals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Cricket fans deplore the fact that ever since the appointment of the interim committee led by D.S. De Silva and Nishantha Ranatunga, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=cricket&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\">cricket<\/a><\/span> in Sri Lanka has gone from being one of the best to one of the worst among the top 8 nations. Their grievances, leading to the petition are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">There is absolutely no democracy in how SLC operates \u2013 This point is best highlighted by the fact that its\u2019 highest officials repeatedly get \u201celected\u201d without having to stand any election!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">There is no accountability or transparency in how the current administrators engage in financial (mis)management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The current secretary of SLC has lost all respect, trust and faith the fans have in him, if there was any ever. This is an individual who had no problem taking such high positions within SLC even when obvious conflict of interests existed. This is a secretary under whose leadership the cricket board is embroiled in numerous controversies involving not just accusation of corruption and financial mismanagement, but also fall-out with national players and those officials who were elected through a true democratic process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Cricket lovers can vote to demand change using link <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/vote-of-no-confidence-in-sri-lannkan-cricket-administration#share\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/we-have-lost-both-the-times-i-have-gone-to-the-ground-mahinda-rajapaksa\/smahinda_cricket\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56190\" title=\"sMahinda_Cricket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sMahinda_Cricket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sMahinda_Cricket.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sMahinda_Cricket-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":56190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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