{"id":160257,"date":"2016-04-05T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=160257"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T11:32:43","slug":"ranatunga-wants-cricket-board-dissolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranatunga-wants-cricket-board-dissolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranatunga Wants Cricket Board Dissolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ports and Shipping Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Ranatunga&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Ranatunga<\/span><\/a> has called for the immediate dissolving of the Cricket Board, while announcing that he is ready to give leadership to an interim committee to save Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/conspiracies-to-bring-back-the-family-into-power-arjuna-warns\/arjuna-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-143498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-143498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Arjuna-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Arjuna\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Arjuna-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Arjuna-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In a request to President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Ranatunga cited that cricket in Sri Lanka was today at its lowest, hence action should be taken to ensure the country\u2019s most popular sport will not suffer from further deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn interim committee must be appointed, so money cannot be pilfered,\u201d Ranatunga told media today.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that he was ready to take the leadership of the interim committee \u2018for the sake of cricket in the country.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga, the former cricket captain said that in the past he had served in an interim committee and did not let anyone swindle money off the cricket fund.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that the current members of the cricket board have appointed their friends and allies who have no idea about cricket, which has led to a further deterioration in the management of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":143498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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