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Trinidadexpress.com: UNABLE to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide an exclusive window for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have decided to do it on their own. As their leading players are likely to be engaged
- ICC rules out window for IPL (Category: Business)
- Emirates and Deccan Chargers Nurture Young Cricketing Talent (Category: Breaking News)
- Five IPL cricketers suspended on corruption allegations (Category: Business)
- Emirates contributes to Sri Lanka’s Carnival of Cricket (Category: Business)
In an exclusive interaction with the Gamechanger Team on the sidelines of the SLPL match between Basnahira Cricket Dundee and Uva Next, the Secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket Nishantha Ranatunga opened up with his thoughts on the Mahindra Sri Lanka Premier League, its future in the Sri Lankan cricket
- SLPL boost for tourism next month (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Premier League forges ahead (Category: Business)
- Brian Lara, MCC Chief lift SLPL to the world (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) to begin from August 10 (Category: Sports)
ESPNCricinfo: Former ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat’s role as special advisor to the SLC will include an independent review of its governance and recommendations to the heavily indebted board on financial management, SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga has said. All recommendations made by Lorgat in his three-month tenure will then be made public. He will also ...
- Lorgat likely to join Sri Lanka Cricket as consultant (Category: Business)
- Lorgat joins Sri Lanka Cricket as special advisor (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
- SLC close to appointing Lorgat consultant (Category: Sports)
Around two weeks back when I was invited to address the business chambers of Pakistan in Karachi, I realised that the bond between the people of Pakistan and Sri Lanka was not due to business or commerce but the game of cricket. Whenever I mentioned cricket in my addresses, there was a round of applause ...
- Sri Lanka makes it to 2013 Future Brands Country report (Category: Business)
- Branding Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankans put on a gutsy show for free (Category: Business)
- Brand ‘Sri Lanka’ valued $ 23 b; ranks 76th globally (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka Cricket says it will stage its own Twenty20 cricket league in August, more than a year after it was postponed due to possible losses due to a pull out of Indian players. The first edition of Sri Lanka Premier League was originally scheduled to be played in July last year. SLC president
- Sri Lanka Cricket will not benefit from being tough - BCCI (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan officials to meet BCCI on Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka T20 league set to be launched in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka minister’s request Colombo: (Category: Breaking News)
Parliamentary accountability The Parliament, as the country’s foremost representative institution, has the sole authority over national resources and financial allocations and concurrently has a prominent role to play in fiscal responsibility, the budgetary process, economic development and effective transparent economic and financial management, with a view to assuring sustainable growth an...
- Chandra J sends his proposals for 2013 Budget to the President (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Time for reflection, reality check, risk mitigation and lessons learnt action (Category: Business)
The sports minister in Sri Lanka has vowed to continue bidding for more international sporting events despite the failure to secure 2018 Commonwealth Games in Hambantota. Sri Lanka lost to Australia’s Gold Coast in Saint Kitts last year, after a lengthy bidding process spending Rs. 880 million. But Sports Minister Mahindananada Aluthgamage told BBC Sinhala ...
- Disaster Warning (Category: Business)
- Fresh Season (Category: Business)
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns as Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
What does independence mean to Sri Lanka? After 64 years, one would think that the value of freedom would have waned, but that is not the case. Yet the direction of this independence and what it means to people is undergoing a change and therein lies the challenge for the decades ahead. It is true ...
- Winners of the School essay competition conducted by Department of Information (Category: Breaking News)
- Hit Wicket (Category: Business)
- Judicial Jugglery (Category: Business)
- Each step taken for development a step towards freedom - President (Category: Breaking News)
AAP: New Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is adamant his unpaid squad can put their money woes and off-field dramas behind them to turn around what’s been a bleak patch of Test and one-day results. Since finishing runner-up to India at last year’s World Cup, Sri Lanka’s form has slumped, falling to series losses to ...
- Jayawardene denies recent slump down to infighting (Category: Business)
- We handled pressure better in series: Mahela (Category: Business)
- Chamara Silva called up as injury cover (Category: Business)
- Jayawardene defends Dilshan and Marsh (Category: Business)
Sydney Morning Herald: This summer’s tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka’s players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country’s governing body. As Mahela Jayawardene’s team battle the world’s top two ODI sides on the field during this ...
- Funds on the way for Sri Lankan players (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankans put on a gutsy show for free (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka aim to rise above money worries (Category: Business)
- $3 m floor price set for T20 league franchises (Category: Business)
Member of Parliament Eran Wickramaratne speaking on the ‘Financial Impact of the Findings of the COPE Report’ at a seminar on ‘Good Governance’ organised by Women for Good Governance (WGG) on Monday at the OPA Auditorium stated that the loss from inefficiency and waste far exceeds the losses on corruption in Government institutions. He called on ...
- Living the faith (Category: Business)
- COPE report presented to Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- COPE; NO ACTION TALK ONLY (Category: Breaking News)
- The greatest challenge (Category: Business)
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) under its outreach programme ‘Sambhashana’ discussed ‘COPE Exposure and Beyond’ at the OPA Auditorium recently. On the panel were Rajiva Wijesinha, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC and Professor A.D.V. de S. Indraratna. The moderator was Lakshman Gunasekera. Below is the presentation by Professor Indraratna: This is not the first time tha...
- Ex-AG backs IMF bailout conditions (Category: Breaking News)
- DEW disappointed over disruption of COPE; AG acting in terms of Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- AG, COPE take exception to ‘executive interference’ (Category: Breaking News)
- X-Press Pearl controversy: Prof. Peiris zeroes in on AG (Category: Breaking News)
Colombo, (AFP): The Sri Lankan government has ordered a probe into the national cricket team’s “crisis situation” after they fell to another defeat in their one-day series in South Africa, an official said on Wednesday. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage asked the country’s cricket governing body to investigate and recommend remedial action to end the side’s ...
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka’s cash crisis threatens to overshadow tri-series tour (Category: Business)
- Chaminda Vaas Benefit T20 Cricket Cup – 2011, now official (Category: Business)
- Weary Brett Lee quits international cricket (Category: Business)
The newly elected president of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has once again has predicted that at least five years will be needed to resolve its financial crisis. Upali Dharmadasa, who was elected uncontested on 03 January, said the SLC will get a considerable amount of income from future tours
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
- Former Lanka cricket chief Thilanga wants his position back (Category: Business)
- SJB calls for sacking of SLC management (Category: Breaking News)
- South Africa backs Sri Lankan cricketers’ pay dispute: Smith (Category: Business)
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan minister slammed the country’s cricket team on Thursday, blaming poor team spirit for its humiliating 258-run thrashing by South Africa, the island’s worst one-day international defeat. Government spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said he was “horrified” when Sri Lanka were dismissed for 43 runs at Boland Park in Paarl on ...
- Dilshan tenders resignation as captain-SLC (Category: Breaking News)
- Tillakaratne Dilshan steps down as captain of Sri Lanka cricket team (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket: Sri Lanka axe coach after just three months (Category: Breaking News)
- Odds against Sri Lanka in SA (Category: Breaking News)
Favourite and highly connected Upali Dharmadasa yesterday became the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket after winning the first-ever election to its Board in seven years. He won the race uncontested, a development which also favoured Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga who contested independently. Dharmadasa
- Upali new SLC Chairman (Category: Breaking News)
- NAWALOKA FOUNDER H.K. DHARMADASA HAS PASSED AWAY (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC to boost domestic cricket (Category: Business)
- Upali Dharmadasa to contest SLC election (Category: Breaking News)
By Manoj Ridimahaliyadda espncricinfo.com: Sidath Wettimuny, the former Sri Lanka batsman, has suggested a radical restructuring of the country’s domestic cricket structure, which involves promoting provinces over clubs. The financial uncertainty surrounding Sri Lankan cricket and the upcoming board elections could, however, overshadow Wettimuny’s proposal. As a member of Sri Lanka Cri...
- Wettimuny proposes revamp of Sri Lankan cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Lorgat for independent review of SLC governance (Category: Business)
- Durban win can’t erase Sri Lanka’s scars (Category: Business)
- SLC suspends all board-run domestic tournaments (Category: Breaking News)
Wall Street Journal.com: Not many employers could get away with not paying their most important employees for eight months. But that’s what cricket’s governing body in Sri Lanka has just done. Amazingly, those employees, the international-team players, have carried on working. Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka’s cash crisis threatens to overshadow tri-series tour (Category: Business)
- Chaminda Vaas Benefit T20 Cricket Cup – 2011, now official (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket hopes T20 league will be “spectacular” (Category: Business)
- $3 m floor price set for T20 league franchises (Category: Business)
SRI Lanka Cricket has been a hot topic of conversation for most of this year, due to the massive financial mismanagement that has finally caught up to the institution, with even the Government refusing to back it any longer. Lending a ray of hope, Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage
- SLC faces financial crisis after World Cup - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket seeks cash help (Category: Breaking News)
- No financial crisis in Sri Lanka Cricket - Sports Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC in better control of financial situation - Lorgat (Category: Sports)
The Sri Lankan Cricketers’ Association (SLCA) has contacted the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) seeking assistance over the delay in the cricketers’ salaries for series following the World Cup this year. Sri Lanka have played three series since the end of the World Cup in April and the players are still awaiting payment, including ...
- Take a holistic approach (Category: Business)
- ICC should not make direct payments to players, Arjuna.R. (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC in discussion to solve SL cricketers’ salary issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Funds on the way for Sri Lankan players (Category: Business)
This is the seventh article in the Daily FT’s fortnightly series titled ‘Business of Sports,’ focusing on the back office of the various sports administered and played in this country. Readers are invited to share their views and express their opinion via email to editor@ft.lk on the features carried in this column so that a ...
- Sri Lanka sports: Mired between power plots and honey pots! (Category: Business)
- ‘The Business of Sports’: A long overdue commentary! (Category: Business)
- A sports economy: New mantra for a sporting nation! (Category: Business)
- Is Sri Lanka Sports being waylaid by mercenaries? (Category: Business)
Mismanagement in sports administrationThe role of oligarchs in sports administration, national, regional and international, is not solely a South Asian phenomenon, it is a worldwide cancer. Anyone who has worked in the sports sector in South Asia would have come up against this debilitating factor. It is all pervasive and endemic. Once at a South ...
- CWG bid money not wasted: Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka hosting CWG would inspire 45 other nations – President (Category: Business)
- Gold Coast wins CWG 2018 bid (Category: Breaking News)
- A month to go for vote, Govt. says momentum building on Hambantota’s 2018 CWG bid (Category: Business)
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