Can DS make a difference?

As Sri Lanka Cricket embraces yet another change in administration, Rex Clementine profiles it's new chairman, Somachandra de Silva, the former legspinner. One of the bigger challenges awaiting de Silva will be tolerating interference from the country's outspoken sports minister, Gamini Lokuge. Read on in the Island.

With his appointment as the chief of Sri Lanka Cricket, D.S. automatically becomes a Director of the ICC, but it remains to be seen whether the world governing body would accept his appointment due to his links with the betting industry. On his own admission, he has been employed by betting magnate E.W. Balasuriya for a certain period.