Captain Ranatunga v chairman Ranatunga

When Arjuna Ranatunga took over as Sri Lanka's captain, the consensus was that finally the game had got the man it wanted. So expectations ran high when he was appointed as the chairman of Sri Lanka's interim committee earlier this year. But these expectations have exploded between then and now, writes Elmo Rodrigopulle in Sri Lanka's Sunday Observer.

... the game and the administrations has been travelling the wrong way. True as captain he could have dictated terms on the field and had his way. But somebody should have told him that playing is one thing and administration is another. Going down memory lane, it would not be wrong to think that no other IC chairman, became so unpopular and had so much adverse publicity tossed his way as has been done on the former captain.