By Dhammika Ratnaweera
Ever since the 1996 world cup triumph and its consequence of inflating broadcasting rights parted the two vice presidents of world cup winning Ana Punchihewa’s cricket administration, Sri Lanka cricket elections have always been a battle between Dharmadasa and Sumathipala trying to oust each other from cricket headquarters.
After 23 years, at a time when a degraded Sri Lanka cricket team narrowly qualified with the slimmest chances for the World Cup as a result of this continuous clash, now again Dharmadasa and Sumathipala are in frey to take control of Sri Lanka Cricket.
Guided by immediate past president Thilanga Sumathipala, the presidential candidate from his camp Mohan de Silva said that they want to offer an ailing country’s cricketing structure a right and a continuous direction to come out of the current dilemma.
On the other hand, Jayantha Dharmadasa, aided by World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga who too is at logger heads with Sumathipala, was very critical of the past administration under Thilanga Sumathipala of which he himself was a vice president and then resigned. Dharmadasa said that at a time Sri Lanka Cricket is called as the most corrupt cricket entity in the world by the game’s international body, he was looking forward to create a corrupt-free cricket administration for the country.
Responding to various allegations of corruptions in cricket administration, Mohan de Silva, who is also a past president said that there had always been these types of false allegations and so far none had been proven although they were investigated through auditors and presidential commissions. “It is a pity that there is an organized group always trying to break into take the cricket administration with false accusations. This has continuously harm country’s cricket. It is the game we love suffers at the end of the day” said de Silva, who is confident to continue forward the administration after Feb 21 elections.
Althougth, it is not very clear on the ultimate president candidate as outgoing Vice President and renowned cricket administrator Kangadaran Mathivanan, who is tipped to take the top seat from the Dharmadasa camp, Jayantha Dharmadasa said that his team is filled with qualified and reputed cricket administrators in Mathivanan, Ranatungas and Narangoda.
List of nominations accepted by Election Committee for the SLC Election
| The Post of President | |
|---|---|
 |
De Silva Mahadurage Mohan Anthony Chulananda |
 |
Dharmadasa Hewa Komanage Jayantha |
 |
Mathivanan Kangadaran |
 |
Silva Atulugamage Shammi Shiraj |
| Post of Vice President |
|---|
| De Silva Mahadurage Mohan Anthony Chulananda |
| Mathivanan Kangadaran |
| Ranatunga Arjuna |
| Silva Atulugamage Shammi Shiraj |
| Wickramaratne Raveen Udayapriya |
| Wickramasighe Pramodya |
| Post of Secretary |
|---|
| De Silva Mahadurage Mohan Anthony Chulananda |
| Dissanayake Bandula Thilak |
| Ranatunga Nishantha |
| Silva Atulugamage Shammi Shiraj |
| Post of Assistant Secretary |
|---|
| Dissnayake Bandula Thilak |
| Kapuwatta Chrishantha Theadore |
| Perera Kaluarachchige Gerard Hirantha |
| Wickramaratne Raveen Udayapriya |
| Post of Treasurer |
|---|
| Narangoda Eastman |
| Silva Atulugamage Shammi Shiraj |
| Wickramaratne Raveen Udayapriyantha |
| Wickramasinghe Nalin |
| Wickramasinghe Liyanage Lasantha Sadananda |
| Post of Assistant Treasurer |
|---|
| Rambukwella Lalith Mahinda Bandara Dissanayake |
| Senarath Sanjaya Sedara |
| Wickramasinghe Nalin |
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