Group together with Muralitharan submits petition in court docket for overhaul of ‘flawed’ SLC structure

There has lengthy been a view that SLC’s current structure is unfit for function

Former gamers Muttiah Muralitharan and Sidath Wettimuny are amongst a bunch of 12 who’ve submitted a petition within the courts in search of an overhaul of Sri Lanka Cricket’s “flawed” structure.

There has lengthy been a view that SLC’s current structure, which was drafted within the pre-professional period, is unfit for function, and is the supply of lots of the nation’s cricketing ills, together with an ailing home construction. Though there have beforehand been unsuccessful makes an attempt to change SLC’s structure, that is the primary time stress is being placed on SLC through the nation’s courts.

As a primary motion, Sri Lanka’s Court docket of Appeals, the place the petition was lodged, has given discover to SLC, and the nation’s sports activities minister (who can be a respondent). They’ve been requested to reply to the petition on March 15.

The petition raises a number of issues however its major intention seems to be to severely limit the variety of votes on the SLC election. By doing so, it hopes to scale back the variety of first-class groups, amongst different goals. There aren’t any fewer than 148 votes up for grabs at SLC election, in contrast, for instance, to 38 votes within the BCCI election, in a rustic with roughly 60 occasions Sri Lanka’s inhabitants. The petition states the decline within the males’s nationwide workforce’s outcomes since 2016 is right down to poorly administered home cricket.

The petition additionally suggests a change within the structure may assist carry extra girls into administrative positions at SLC (the present government committee is all males), and likewise assist extra meaningfully unfold the sport past the 4 provinces which have thus far produced Sri Lanka cricketers.

“We are a country playing Test cricket since 1982,” the petition states. “The rest of the 5 provinces: North, East, Sabaragamuwa, Rajarata and Uva have produced zero test players. We have not even made a dent in developing cricket in two-thirds of the land in Sri Lanka.”

SLC was approached for remark however didn’t reply.

Petitioners: Kushil Gunasekara, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sidath Wettimuny, Michael Tissera, Saleem Marsoof, Dinal Phillips, Rienzie Wijetilleke, Thilan Wijesinghe, Vijaya Malalasekara, Ana Punchihewa, Somasundaram Skandakumar, Palitha Kohona