By S.R.Pathiravithana Sri Lanka cricket will forward a list of eleven names for the Sports Minister’s perusal this week to form the next cricket selection committee. However, according to Secretary SLC, Nishantha Ranatunga the list will also include the incumbent lot of Asantha de Mel, Don Anurasiri and Hemantha Wickramaratne. Ranatunga said, “We hope to [...]

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By S.R.Pathiravithana

Sri Lanka cricket will forward a list of eleven names for the Sports Minister’s perusal this week to form the next cricket selection committee. However, according to Secretary SLC, Nishantha Ranatunga the list will also include the incumbent lot of Asantha de Mel, Don Anurasiri and Hemantha Wickramaratne.

Ranatunga said, “We hope to forward the list of ten names to the Minister this week and the names include the serving selection committee members and some who have served in the same capacity before”.

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Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said last week that he intends forming a new selection committee and the new committee would have at least five persons serving in it. The term of the current selectors finished on December 31, 2012.

Commenting further on the subject Ranatunga said, “We cannot solely put the onus on the selectors for one bad tour. We all must share the blame. I mean the players; the tour management committee and we serve in this committee at Sri Lanka Cricket. Remember it were the same selectors’ choices which brought Sri Lanka to the finals of the 2011 World Cup and the ICC T-20 championships”.

When asked about the structural changes that the Minister spoke about last week, Ranatunga said that they are working on those lines, but a final decision would be made once the new selection committee is formed. He said, “It would be the selectors’ duty to form a policy of that nature”.

The SLC secretary also said that the post of the Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket would be filled very soon. “We have short listed the names and it will be up to the executive committee to name him”.

It is learnt that the names that were approved by the SLC committee were Kapila Wijegunawardena, Hashan Tillekeratne, Chaminda Mendis, Asantha de Mel, Don Anurasiri, Hemantha Wickramaratne, Vinothan John, Gamini Wickremasinghe, Ranjith Madurasinghe, Mahesh Gunatilleke and Jayantha Amerasinghe.

It is also said that former Sri Lanka fast bowler Chaminda Vaas would only agree to serve if he is made the chairman of selectors.
Sidath Wettimuny, Aravinda de Silva, Anura Tennekoon and Shabhir Asgerally had declined the offer.




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