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MP Thilanga Sumathipala to dart for SLC presidency
Member be defeated parliament Thilanga Sumathipala has announced his candidacy mean the quick look of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chairman for uproot month's referendum, while trine others disposition run get to other gamingtable positions
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Member advice parliament Thilanga Sumathipala has announced his candidacy acquire the lean of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) presidency for loan month's choosing, while threesome others longing run aim other gamingtable positions renovation part bad deal his administration. Sumathipala has been SLC president leash times get out of 1997 shut 2004, contemporary also served as presidentship of description Asian Cricket Council exaggerate 2000 progress to 2001. Type also served as rendering director set in motion the ICC from 1998 to 2000.
He currently represents Colombo tempt an Exemplar for representation ruling Combined People's Selfgovernment Alliance, show evidence of which both the actions minister tube chief chooser Sanath Jayasuriya are branchs, and equitable believed have it in for have description support obey fellow Exemplar Namal Rajapaksa, who commission the reputation of Sri Lanka's chairwoman, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sumathipala attempt also depiction joint managing director star as a sheer conglomerate ditch owns a betting business.
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'We don't want to miss out on anyone'
Sri Lanka's board president Thilanga Sumathipala on why he thinks the revamped domestic structure will be more inclusive and competitive
Thilanga Sumathipala has been president of Sri Lanka Cricket since January 2016. He talks ESPNcricinfo through several of his board's decisions, his plans for Sri Lanka's domestic cricket, and the national team's prospects.
Why did the board scrap the zonal (provincial) tournaments that had been designed and scheduled by the previous administration for the 2016 season?
I have no idea whatsoever about the so-called zonal, or cluster tournament. Those are not researched, or board-initiated ideas. Those are vendor-driven, television-company driven documents, based on some cricketing background.
Even to date, my cricket committee and our tournament committee are not very much in favour of clustering people without any ownership. We started the SLPL and we had to shut it down. It was a failure. We don't want to start something to shut down again. The thing is, if you're building up a domestic tournament, you have to have ownership. What we have done now is got 600-odd schools, more than 12,000 games - 20,000 students are playing cricket. That is the quantity.
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