Former interim committee chairman Sidath Wettimuny is hopeful that the proposal put forward by some of the interim committee members to change the Sri Lanka Cricket constitution would be implemented soon by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe and Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera. “When I handed over a copy of the constitution proposal to the Prime Minister and to the Sports Minister they both accepted that there needs to be a change and showed a keenness for it,” said Wettimuny.
Michael Roberts, courtesy of island.ckt … http://www.islandcricket.lk/columns/michael_roberts/430430213/talking-cricket-with-michael-de-zoysa-managers-tasks-on-tour
When composing my essay on Russell Arnold in April last I rang Michael de Zoysa in Lanka in order to get some insights. In passing he indicated that he had just submitted his Manager’s Report on the Tour of NZ and Australia. When I met him for an extended chat in Colombo in late May he indicated that the new Interim Board had not sought him out to discuss this assessment or talk cricket.[1] Neither, it seems, have our ‘erstwhile’ reporters.[2]
Michael de Zoysa is a straight talker and is prepared to level criticism at one’s face. He does not wish his report to be buried. As it happens I know him well. So I can affirm that, apart from considerable executive experience in the private sector, he brings to the cricketing table something I totally lack: the ability to read and decipher turf wickets.** Succeeding the late Ranil Abeynaike he has overseen the management of the SSC grounds and its precious wickets for some time. Continue reading
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, where the bylines are ‘We should decentralise Sri Lanka’s cricket’
Sri Lankan Cricket Interim Committee Chairman Sidath Wettimuny (R) speaks to reporters in Colombo on April 1, 2015. Sri Lanka’s sports minister Navin Dissanayake has urged the world’s number one batsman Kumar Sangakkara to reconsider plans to retire from Test cricket and urged him to play on for another year. AFP PHOTO/ LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Sri Lanka Test batsman Sidath Wettimuny, who, on March 31, was appointed head of the interim committee running Sri Lanka Cricket until elections are held, on what he plans to get round to doing during his caretaker stint.
You came in with a mandate to clean cricket up. What are the pressing needs in Sri Lankan cricket at the moment?
I’m not sure my job is to look at the past. Instead it’s to look at how we can put processes in place to improve things, particularly on the cricket side of things. We’ve already started the process of putting indoor nets at Khettarama Stadium (R Premadasa Stadium), and we’re working on increasing domestic player salaries. Those are things I think are desperately needed. We’re also looking at our domestic structure carefully, and have a few proposals to make some changes. Continue reading
Kumar Dharmasena was a member of Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup winning squad … and may even have a wicket as trophy …. and Yes he served as Umpire in the Finals of the 3015 World Cup at the MCG on 29th March 2015
Rex Wijewardena, in The Island, 11 May 2015, with title “Let’s salute the other Kumar”
Sri Lanka’s hopes in the ICC Cricket World Cup crashed at the hands of South Africa on that fateful day in Sydney. The much anticpated quarter-final clash ended in an anti climax with the Sri Lankans gifting a part-time spin bowler a hat-trick. While the Sri Lankans had lost interest in the rest of the tournament once their team crashed out, the elevation of our own Kumar Dharmasena to officiate the finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup at MCG was truly a honour. Continue reading
Mike Marqusee
Cricket, Commerce and the Future, March 27, 2010, https://cricketique.live/2010/03/27/cricket-commerce-and-the-future-2/ ……..This essay appeared in the Hindu Sunday Magazine in mid-March 2010. Also see http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/12/indian- premier-league-just-not-cricket and www.mikemarqusee.com
MIKE relaxing in Jodhpur, India Continue reading
Quintus De Zylva, …”Darrell Bruce Hair? To be recalled as an advisor?”
Darrell Hair was dumped when the ICC announced it’s elite panel of umpires in 2002. Rumour has it that moves are a foot to have him re-called as an advisor to the umpires in the forthcoming World Cup 2015. He called Murali for chucking in the 1995 test between Australia and Sri Lanka at the MCG and later with Billy Doctrove he accused the Pakistan captain of ball tampering – an accusation that was dismissed by the ICC.
George Dobell: “Senanayake catches Buttler dozing” …. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-sri-lanka-2014/content/story/750041.html[/
Umpire Gough gives Buttler out
There was little doubt what the Birmingham crowd thought to the run-out of Jos Buttler. Boos rang out around Edgbaston every time Sachithra Senanayake touched the ball following his decision to end Buttler’s innings. Already utilising an action that some in England – a conservative country in cricketing terms – believe to be dubious, Senanayake will now forever be cast in the role of villain after running out the home side’s golden boy in a rare instance of ‘Mankading’ in the international game.
Buttler, the non-striking batsman, had backed up too far. He was out of his crease. Senanayake, the bowler, had warned him in the previous over. He warned him, clearly and in sight of the umpires, that if Buttler continued to back up out of his crease, he would remove the bails and complete the run out. Continue reading
Gideon Haigh, in The Weekend Australian 15 March 2014
MIRPUR, a suburb to the north east of Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, is home to a zoo, a botanic gardens, the head office of the country’s celebrated microfinance institution and, for the next two weeks, to world cricket. Half the group games and all the finals of the fifth World Twenty20, which begins on Friday, are to be played at Mirpur’s well-equipped Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, including all those involving Australia; the balance will be held at Chittagong’s rather plainer ZA Chowdhury Stadium. Both cities should be in for an excellent ensuing fortnight. In its short history, the World T20 has had greater gram-for-gram impact than any global cricket event. Continue reading
