Sri Lanka Cricket summoned before Parliament’s Committee on Public Enterprises

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket has been summoned before the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) on Thursday, its chairman Prof. Charitha Herath said.

The Auditor General’s report on the financial years 2017 and 2018 of Sri Lanka Cricket and its performance will be reviewed.

The committee is scheduled to meet in Parliament on Thursday at 2 pm.

Sri Lanka is hoping a cricket committee of former players can improve the national team’s performances after resounding Test series defeats against South Africa and England.

Aravinda de Silva, Roshan Mahanama, Kumar Sangakkara and spin great Muttiah Muralitharan have been appointed to the new committee, the Sri Lanka cricket board said on Friday.