Mohan de Silva, Dharmadasa to contest elections

Mohan de Silva, a former president and secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket, and Jayantha Dharmadasa, the current interim chairman, will both be standing in the forthcoming cricket board elections to be held on July 15. De Silva and Dharmadasa will be competing with Minister Sripathi Sooriarachchi for the highly coveted position of board president.

De Silva - closely aligned with former president Thilanga Sumathipala in the past - was proposed for the elections by the Cricket Committee of the Sinhalese Sports Club. The club also proposed Michael de Zoysa and Nuski Mohomed as board secretary and treasurer respectively.

De Silva's likely backing by Sumathipala makes him the clear frontrunner to win the elections. Sumathipala and his allies have won all the elections contested since the 1996 World Cup. Their terms of office have been broken only by periodic Interim Committees appointed by the government.