Overview
- The ICC delegation, which includes deputy chairman Imran Khwaja and a senior BCCI official, arrived Friday to examine the government's installation of an interim panel at Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage on April 29 named a nine-member Cricket Transformation Committee led by Eran Wickremaratne with former captains Kumar Sangakkara, Roshan Mahanama and Sidath Wettimuny.
- Sri Lanka Cricket said president Shammi Silva and the executive committee quit with immediate effect after a meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and officials have not disclosed the reasons.
- Gamage said the government made no formal notification to the ICC about the interim appointments, a point that has added urgency to the fact-finding visit.
- Sri Lanka’s 1973 Sports Law lets the minister dissolve sports bodies and appoint interim committees, but the ICC has treated such state control as interference and even suspended SLC in 2023.