Interim Committee to be disolved?

Sports minister Gamini Lokuge is to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa ahead of taking a final decision on a possible dissolution of the Interim Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket, reports the Ceylon Daily News.

A few excerpts can be found below you may read the full story here.

Minister Lokuge when contacted said that it was too premature to comment on the issue, but stressed that any decision regarding the SLC Interim Committee will be taken on the advice and recommendations of President Rajapaksa.

The Minister agreed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the sport’s local controlling body was afflicted by a spate of ills as was recently highlighted in Parliament by SLC Interim Committee Chairman and MP Arjuna Ranatunga during the Committee Stage debate of the Ministry of Sports, and the only panacea could be either to hold elections to SLC or form a fresh Interim Committee.

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Sri Lanka offer to play charity cricket match for Mumbai

Sri Lanka Cricket has offered to play a charity cricket match for Mumbai's victims. The Times of India reports that Arjuna Ranatunga has been in discussion with the Indian board and is ready to send a full strength Sri Lankan team to India.

"I have spoken to Pawar and have offered our unconditional support to the BCCI. The SLC condemns the terror attacks. We are ready to a play a charity match in aid of all those who have been affected", Ranatunga said.

"We are ready to send a full-strength team for the purpose. The SLC wants to help in their own humble way", he added. - Times of India.

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If I was a Sri Lankan bowler...

I would be pissed as hell.

Alarm goes off. Wake up in a hotel room in Zimbabwe.
Brush your teeth, take a piss a dump and a shower. Throw in a wank.

Its game day.

Make your way down to the lobby, eat the nutritious garbage they feed you, when all you wanna eat is some rice and pol Sambol.

Hop on the bus. Listen to the ipod.

Its hot and all you want is an ice bath.

Instead, you are being asked to warm up, its Zimbabwe for Christ sake.

Mahela goes out for the toss, he wins. You are happy. Put the legs up and take a snooze.

Read a magazine, check the email.

Someones sent you some female actor's nude pics.
You are very happy.

An hour later you are scrambling to find your pads and end up walking out without your box and your gloves.

There's 20 overs to go and you are being asked to play a long innings.

You are pissed as hell, cuz you know in another hour you gotta come out and defend this and win the game.

This isn't what you signed up for.

This isn't what we talked about in the team meeting.

In the end you just wish this was played in India,

At least then you can ride that bike you get for Man of the Match back to the hotel.

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[Video] Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka at Harare - 3rd ODI - 2008

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Mahela wins a game with his brain

Yesterday's game could have gone horribly wrong for Sri Lanka. It didn’t.

If anyone deserves a pat on the back for the that tantalizing win it should be Mahela.

10 to win off the last over.

Mahela calls up Thilan Thushara and hands him the ball. I watched Mahelas body language at this point, wondering what was going through his mind. With So much drama back home with the media, Arjuna and his players. Here he was, stuck in a country where he probably didn't want to be in. Playing a team he probably dint want to be playing. Getting out for 4 against bowlers he could probably play in his sleep.

His team was about to lose to the lowest ranked team in international cricket. And he was about to make a calamitous mistake.

I watched him put the ball in Thilans hand. Talk to him about field placings and from his gestures I could see he was thinking the same thing I was.

The Zimbabweans were flashing their bats at everything, with the added pace there was a big chance of someone getting an edge behind the keeper that went for four.

So he did what any good captain would do, he asked himself that all important question that will now be the yardstick for every captain in international cricket

“What would Ricky Ponting do?”.

Mahela went into that zombie pose of his. You know the one, where he stares at the ground like his trying to do a long division sum.

He got his answer. Ponting would bowl Thilan. Of course the trick to the question is, once you know what Ponting would do, you do the exact opposite.

Murali had an over in hand, Mahela changed his mind and threw the ball to him

Sri Lanka win by 5 runs.

Decisions like those change games. Its good to know that Mahelas head is still grounded and is thinking clearly.

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[Video] Muttiah Muralitharan - KFC commercial

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Cricinfo's website management contract in Sri Lanka will not be renewed

Sri Lanka Cricket has chosen not to renew Cricinfo's website management contract in Sri Lanka. The contract is to be handed over to PixelTray which is a subsidiary of the Maharaja Group. It is rumoured that Arjuna Ranatunga chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket's interim committee has close ties with the Maharaja Group.

Cricinfo managed a database of over 400 players in Sri Lanka and provided live scorecards and ball by ball coverage of Sri Lanka's premier league tournament.

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Mendis more dangerous than Murali - Utseya

Zimbabwe captain Prosper Utseya speaking to media on the eve of their five-match one-day series believes that Mendis is more a threat than Murali.

"We were lucky to play Mendis in a four-day game and we have an idea of what to expect from him," Utseya told reporters on Wednesday.

"Murali didn't play in that warm-up game, but I don't think he's as effective as Mendis. But basically it's all about us reacting to whatever they dish out."

Early this week Zimbabwe-A skittled out Sri Lanka for a paltry 235 in 48 overs. Contributions from Jehan Mubarak(88*) and Upul Tharanga(71) saved the Lankans from total embarrassment.

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