What's ailing Sri Lankan cricket?
Sri Lanka's dramatic slip in form since the World Cup can be attributed to several factors, many of which aren't in the control of the players, such as payments long overdue from the board
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Sri Lanka's dramatic slip in form since the World Cup can be attributed to several factors, many of which aren't in the control of the players, such as payments long overdue from the board. The board's financial crisis isn't helping either, writes Saadi Thawfeeq in the Nation.
Cricket is the only sport today that Sri Lanka can compete with other nations and win. But unless it is rid free of politics and politicians it is in great danger of going into decline. Politics has been the bane of sport and in a country like Sri Lanka it is sad that it continues to flourish via interim committees. It is only the ICC’s recent strong stand taken against government interference in the running of a national cricket board (that allows them to suspend a member country) that has moved the Sri Lankan government to call for elections which has been fixed for January 3, 2012.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo