{"id":555223,"date":"2026-04-28T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555223\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:13","slug":"slc-president-shammi-silva-executive-committee-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555223\/","title":{"rendered":"SLC President Shammi Silva, Executive Committee Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fo9i1\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=SLC%20President%20Shammi%20Silva%2C%20Executive%20Committee%20Resign&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fo9i1\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=SLC%20President%20Shammi%20Silva%2C%20Executive%20Committee%20Resign%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fo9i1\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-233753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-173249.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"396\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shammi Silva, President of Sri Lanka Cricket, and the SLC Executive Committee have decided to resign following a special committee meeting held today.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation ends Silva\u2019s seven-year tenure as head of Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports said Silva was expected to step down following a request from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also said former MP and State Minister Eran Wickramaratne is likely to be appointed interim president of Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Silva was first elected President of Sri Lanka Cricket in February 2019 and retained the position after winning multiple elections. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shammi Silva, President of Sri Lanka Cricket, and the SLC Executive Committee have decided to resign following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}