{"id":623262,"date":"2026-04-22T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623262\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:50:08","slug":"sri-lanka-government-tells-cricket-board-to-quit-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623262\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka government tells cricket board to quit: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s government has urged the national cricket board&#8217;s executive committee to make way for a new administration by this weekend, a board official told AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Sri Lanka Cricket is the country&#8217;s richest sporting body but it has been plagued by allegations of corruption and mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">It is currently led by four-time president Shammi Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&#8220;There will be an interim administration headed by a former investment banker,&#8221; the official said, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&#8220;The government is responding to public anger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Sri Lanka made an early exit from the T20 World Cup, which it hosted with India in February-March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body, suspended Sri Lanka&#8217;s membership in November 2023 citing political interference in the running of the local board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">That suspension was lifted at the end of January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s government has urged the national cricket board&#8217;s executive committee to make way for a new administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-623262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}