Sri Lanka Cricket’s talk show takes hypocritical twist-BY CALLISTUS DAVY Poacher turns Game keeper at cover-up meeting as problem-creating administrators are seen as solution finders: Recalled cricket manager Jerome Jayaratne (left) meets former captain Angelo Mathews in this file photo during a recent media event after an overseas tour Source:Sundayobserver Amid calls for the sacking of the current cricket administration and replacing it with an alternate body in the aftermath of catastrophic team results, the jockeying for positions and vote buying are taking shape while a high-level discussion to turn things around has been seen by analysts as an eye-washing cover-up that changes very little or nothing. An election to either allow the present set of shady Sri Lanka Cricket administrators to continue or be replaced with another tried and tested outfit is scheduled to be held in two months time. ...

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Who tried to sabotage LPL? Ravin Wickremaratne Sri Lanka Cricket vice president and tournament director of the concluded Lanka Premier League (LPL) Ravin Wickremaratne dropped a bombshell last week which largely went unnoticed by many. Talking to Roshan Abeysinghe the host of a television talk show titled “Straight Drive” at Ada Derena, the LPL director Wickremaratne said: “An official who sat with us holding a high post tried to sabotage the LPL but he did not succeed and the successful conclusion of the LPL was a fitting reply to him. ...

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