Minister: ‘SLC forced ICC to suspend Sri Lanka’ 

COLOMBO: Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket.

Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on Nov. 7, during a media briefing in Colombo.

“Facts have been confirmed that the SLC President and the Executive Board have misled the ICC,” the minister said.

Meanwhile, the minister, quoting a letter said to have been sent by the SLC President to the ICC on November 06, 2023, said, “The second paragraph of this letter mentions that Sri Lanka Cricket has yet to be informed of its suspension or the cancellation of its registration as a national sports association and our only intimidation of this news, is through the media. We have no advanced notice on this decision, nor were we afforded the hearing before it being made public.”

“The next thing is that the SLC has misled the ICC regarding the international suspensions imposed on Sri Lanka Rugby and Sri Lanka Football, pretending that those were arbitrary decisions I took, ” he alleged.

“I would like to mention this as the first letter of betrayal of the country,” the minister said.