IS THIS END OF SL CRICKET DUE TO SPOT FIXING BY SL ALLROUNDER?

According to an online website Lankaleaks.com, the SL player involved is an allrounder playing in IPL and his name has been notified to SLC by India but SLC is trying to hide the name of the supposed culprit.
Cat is out of the bag. Come on SLC which is controlled by Nishantha (with all his corruption in previous committe )and Upali and Mahindanada - 3 nincompoops with no cricketing knowledge. Either 3 of you resign or DIVULGE to the public the name of SL player (an allrounder who puts  the sign of the cross when bowling)involved in spot fixing at IPL.India has informed the SLC  and it is being hidden due to influence of the Church to which this culprit belongs and a powerful lady who attends this church ..And if there is match or spot fixing only fools will watch SL cricket in future.

I had predicted slow death of our cricket due to political interference . When  the Hambantota stadium was being built i spotlighted online  from far away Austarlia  that this will be a white elephant as no one will travel that far to watch cricket. Nishantha made 35 overseas trips last time and all that is ignored.  D S de Silva exchairman,knew sweet bugerral of administration and he appointed his clueless nephews to the all important WC committee and swindled with rampage and COPE has made observations. Now Marsh has filed a case for wrongful dismissal and this is known the world over. Like Australia, why doesnt SL appoint an independent committee to recommend transparency and widen the control of the game aas it is now run by this triumvirate.

What colossal waste of funds which could have been of benefit to the poor upcoming talented cricketers .

It is high time, the present senior cricketers highlight the injustices occurring in SLC unless they have skeletons in their cupboad. Also why have  P unchihewa, Tissera and WEtimuny dissociated from 
SLC. Finally the AGM was an election only by name.

Ranjan Rodrigo Sydney

ලසිත් මාලිංග අවසන් තීරණය ගනියි - ක්‍රිකට් කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුව ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරයි

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ සුපිරි වේග පන්දු යවන්නා වන ලසිත් මාලිංග ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයත් සමග වාර්ෂිකව අත්සන් කරනු ලබන ප්‍රධාන ක්‍රිකට් කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුව අත්සන් කිරීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇති බව අප මෙයට පෙරහෙළි කළා.

පසුව මේ පිළිබඳව මාධ්‍යයට අදහස් දැක්වූ ලසිත් මාලිංග කියා තිබුනේ තමා තමාව ඒ පිළිබඳව තීරණයක් ගෙන නොමැති බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයත් සමග ඒ පිලිබඳ සාකච්ජා කරන බවත්ය.

මේවනවිට ගොසිප්9 වෙත වාර්තා වනුයේ ලසිත් මාලිංග සිය අවසාන තීරණය ගෙන ඇති බවය.
ඒ අනුව ඉදිරි වර්ෂය සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයේ කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුව අත්සන් කිරීම ලසිත් මාලිංග ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කොට ඇත.

SLC aiming at another huge spending spree

Sri Lanka Cricket, which is reportedly still over US$ 70 million (Rs.9.1 billion) in debt, is about to venture into another Rs. 76 million expenditure on infrastructure development for the R. Premadasa Stadium, the Pallekele Stadium and the Hambantota Stadium.

The Pallekele Stadium is billed for two new player dressing rooms with proper access to these dressing rooms.

After ICC officials had made inspections of the three facilities from 1st to 5th November 2011, they had pointed out some requirements to the SLC and now they are in the process of calling tenders for the revamp.

However what some insiders say is that it was only a year ago that the ICC Cricket World Cup – a bigger event than the T-20 World Championship- was held at these venues and only a very few matches have been played since.

The Pallekele Stadium is billed for two new player dressing rooms with proper access to these dressing rooms, ICC stores facilities and a host of other repairs costing Rs.12,718,315.00. At the Hambantota Stadium, a sum of Rs. 2,178,000.00 will be spent on a PVC coated mesh around the stadium, while a guard room at the VIP entrance will cost Rs. 1,100,000. The total cost of work there will come to Rs. 6,361,300.00.

The improvements to the R. Premadasa Stadium will include the installation of elevators to Block ‘A’ and ‘B’, costing Rs. 11 million rupees, and Rs. 10,340,000 on ground improvement. The total expenditure for the Premadasa Stadium will be Rs. 56,997,343.39.

The ICC-stipulated upgrading will cost the rupee hungry cricket board a total sum of Rs. 76,076,958.39.The once cash-rich cricket organisation hit rock bottom in the aftermath of the 2011 Cricket World Cup and at one stage could not even honour the contract agreements of its national cricketers. The ICC intervened and paid a portion of the players’ payments while the SLC completed its obligations only a few weeks ago.

Initially the three stadiums overshot their projected budget of Rs. 3.3 billion and ended up at the huge figure of Rs. 7.18 billion where the major contractor was the Ports Authority. Thereafter even to complete the players’ payments SLC obtained loans from local banks.

The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) was very critical on the construction affairs of the three stadiums and directed the officials of the SLC to submit a detailed report on the price escalation and all other relevant information concerning these three venues.

Pakistan's spinners pose threat - De Mel

Sri Lanka's chairman of selectors Ashantha de Melhas said the Sri Lanka batsmen should to be wary of the two Pakistan spinners, Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman, during the upcoming Twenty20, ODI and Test series.

"It is the Pakistani spinners we need to be careful of. Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman are of a different class compared to our spinners. Only Rangana Herath comes anywhere close to them," De Mel said.

Offspinner Ajmal and left-arm spinner Rehman have been at the forefront of Pakistan's recent successes. The pair took 43 wickets in Pakistan's 3-0 win over No. 1 ranked England in their last Test series played in the UAE early this year. Ajmal was also the leading wicket-taker with 18 wickets during Sri Lanka's three-Test series against Pakistan in the UAE last year.

"The advantage the Pakistan team has is that it also has batsmen who can be useful bowlers, for instance opener Mohammad Hafeez, who can bowl offbreaks," he said. "This adds a lot of variety to their attack and balances their team nicely.

"Their fast bowlers are quite effective with the reverse swing. That's another area our batsmen have got to be wary of. Pakistan have mastered the art of reverse swing from the era of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Umar Gul and left-arm fast bowler Junaid Khan are very good at using the old ball."

A former fast bowler himself, De Mel said Sri Lanka's fast bowlers need to develop their skills to master reverse swing, an art that needs a lot of practice to be perfected.

Recollecting Sri Lanka's last Test series against England at home which ended in a 1-1 draw, De Mel said the batsmen needed to put up 400-plus totals in the first innings if Sri Lanka are to have any chance of winning. Sri Lanka's highest total in that series was 318 in the Galle Test and they failed to go past the 300-run mark in the Colombo Test.

Sri Lanka-Pakistan meet in Hambantota

Sri Lanka’s two-match Twenty20 series against the visiting Pakistan side will get underway under lights at Hambantota on Friday.  Last week Sri Lanka recalled left-arm seamer Isuru Udana who bowls a clever mixture of cutters that ideally suit the shortest version of the game. Udana last played for the national team in the 2009 World Twenty20. Also included in the squad is legspin-bowling hard-hitting batsman Kaushal Lokuarachchi, who has not played for the national team since 2007. For the five-match ODI series pacemen Dilhara Fernando and Nuwan Pradeep have been included along with allrounder Jeevan Mendis. ODI squad Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Sachithra Senanayake, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath, Upul Tharanga, Nuwan Pradeep, Dilhara Fernando T20 squad Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Kaushalya Lokuarachchi, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Sachithra Senanayake, Lasith Malinga, Chamara Kapugedera, Upul Tharanga, Isuru Udana Schedule: 1st T20 - Jun 1 Fri @ Hambantota - 7pm 2nd T20 - Jun 3 Sun @ Hambantota - 7pm 1st ODI - Jun 7 Thu @ Pallekele - 2:30pm 2nd ODI - Jun 9 Sat @ Pallekele - 2:30pm 3rd ODI - Jun 13 Wed @ R Premadasa - 2:30pm 4th ODI - Jun 16 Sat @ R Premadasa - 2:30pm 5th ODI - Jun 18 Mon @ R Premadasa - 2:30pm

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ICC World Twenty20 2012

ICC World Twenty20 2012

18 September – 7 October 2012

The ICC World Twenty20 2012 will be the fourth edition of the international cricket tournament, with Sri Lanka playing host to the 12 men’s teams made up of the 10 Test nations and two additional qualifiers.

England are the defending champions in the men’s event whilst the women’s competition, introduced in 2009, will see eight teams including 2010 winners Australia and runners-up New Zealand contest the overall title.

MAIN EVENT FIXTURES

ICC World Twenty20 2012 Groups

GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C	GROUP D
England (A1)	Australia (B1)	Sri Lanka (C1)	Pakistan (D1)
India (A2)	West Indies (B2)	South Africa (C2)	New Zealand (D2)
Afghanistan	Ireland	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh

*If a team ranked third in the starting groups qualifies for the Super Eight, it will adopt the seeding code of the team they have replaced, e.g. if Q2 qualify at England?s expense in second place after the group stage, they would be A1 and India still A2.

Super Eight (S8) Groups

Group 1 - A1, B2, C1, D2
Group 2 - A2, B1, C2, D1

ICC World Twenty20 2012 Groups - Women's

GROUP A	GROUP B
Australia	New Zealand
India	West Indies
England	Sri Lanka
Pakistan	South Africa

ICC World Twenty20 2012

DATE & TIME (GMT)	FIXTURE
Tue, Sep 18, 2012 2:00 PM		Sri Lanka	vs		Zimbabwe
	Venue: Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 10:00 AM		Australia	vs		Ireland
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 2:00 PM		India	vs		Afghanistan
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Thu, Sep 20, 2012 2:00 PM		South Africa	vs		Zimbabwe
	Venue: Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 10:00 AM		New Zealand	vs		Bangladesh
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 2:00 PM		England	vs		Afghanistan
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sat, Sep 22, 2012 10:00 AM		Sri Lanka	vs		South Africa
	Venue: Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota
Sat, Sep 22, 2012 2:00 PM		Australia	vs		West Indies
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sun, Sep 23, 2012 10:00 AM		Pakistan	vs		New Zealand
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Sun, Sep 23, 2012 2:00 PM		England	vs		India
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 2:00 PM		West Indies	vs		Ireland
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 2:00 PM		Pakistan	vs		Bangladesh
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Thu, Sep 27, 2012 10:00 AM		C1	vs		D2
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Thu, Sep 27, 2012 2:00 PM		A1	vs		B2
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 10:00 AM		D1	vs		C2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:00 PM		B1	vs		A2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 10:00 AM		A1	vs		D2
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 2:00 PM		C1	vs		B2
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 10:00 AM		B1	vs		C2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 2:00 PM		D1	vs		A2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 10:00 AM		B2	vs		D2
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 2:00 PM		A1	vs		C1
	Venue: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Tue, Oct 2, 2012 10:00 AM		B1	vs		D1
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Tue, Oct 2, 2012 2:00 PM		A2	vs		C2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Thu, Oct 4, 2012 1:30 PM		Super 8 Group-1 1	vs		Super 8 Group-2 2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Fri, Oct 5, 2012 1:30 PM		Super 8 Group-2 1	vs		Super 8 Group-1 2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sun, Oct 7, 2012 1:30 PM		FINAL : - SF 1 Winner	vs		SF 2 Winner
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium

ICC World Twenty20 Women's 2012

DATE & TIME (GMT)	FIXTURE
Wed, Sep 26, 2012 4:00 AM		Sri Lanka	vs		South Africa
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Wed, Sep 26, 2012 8:00 AM		New Zealand	vs		West Indies
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Thu, Sep 27, 2012 4:00 AM		England	vs		Pakistan
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Thu, Sep 27, 2012 8:00 AM		Australia	vs		India
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:00 AM		New Zealand	vs		South Africa
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 8:00 AM		Sri Lanka	vs		West Indies
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 4:00 AM		Australia	vs		Pakistan
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 8:00 AM		India	vs		England
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 4:00 AM		West Indies	vs		South Africa
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 8:00 AM		Sri Lanka	vs		New Zealand
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 4:00 AM		India	vs		Pakistan
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 8:00 AM		Australia	vs		England
	Venue: Galle International Stadium
Thu, Oct 4, 2012 9:00 AM		A1	vs		B2
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Fri, Oct 5, 2012 9:00 AM		A2	vs		B1
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium
Sun, Oct 7, 2012 9:00 AM		FINAL : - SF 1 Winner	vs		SF 2 Winner
	Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium