The Sri Lankan cricket have been put into a precarious situation at the moment as the ICC are suspecting 3 Sri Lankan cricketers for match fixing scandal. The country that has produced some absolute legend of the games in Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan is now in a humiliating situation to say the least.
The one good factor is that there are no current players involved in this investigation and the reports suggested that there were some wrong doings at the club cricket level. Although the club cricket is not played at a very high profile manner, these reports are certainly shocking to hear.
There have been a separate committee organized by the board to look into this issue and the sports minister in Dullas Alahapperuma said that , “We are sorry to see that sports had fallen short of discipline and character”
A further statement from the Sri Lankan cricket stated that
SLC strongly believes that what the honourable minister actually mentioned was about an investigation launched by the ICC anti-corruption unit against three former Sri Lanka players and not the current national players
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The right arm fast bowling all rounder in Shehan Madushanaka was the latest one to get detained for handling heroine which shocked the Lankan cricket circuit and the match fixing news that followed immediately has sent shock waves across the cricketing world. The sports minister said “It was sad and the country had placed high hopes on him”
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Amidst all the tragic news coming from the Lankan board, a very good news in Sri Lankan players have started their training routine seems to be doing rounds. The camp lead by their captain in Dimuth Karunaratne have started taking this camp on a rather serious note and getting ready to attain the match fitness as early as possible after having spent the last 3 months away from game.