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Internet Desk: Sri Lanka’s 1996 world Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatinga has been so disgusted with the way that the Sri Lankan Cricket team is now being administered that he has apparently stopped watching the national team playing cricket.
“Sri Lanka Cricket and the manner in which it is being administered and managed is so disgusting that I don’t watch our national cricket anymore,” Ranatunga said.
The Sri Lankan side is now playing a three match test series with visitors India, which the visitors lead 1-0. After the conclusion of the test series, a 5 match ODI series will commence followed by a T20 international.
However, Ranatunga said he preferred watching the recent England-South Africa Test series, which England are currently leading 2-1 with the fourth Test scheduled to start from August 4.
Ranatunga has played 93 Tests scoring 5,105 runs, and 269 ODIs accumulating 7,456 runs, said cricketers and cricket administrators were more worried about earnings, foreign trips and perks rather than commitment of winning for the country.
The 52-year-old said he would be writing to the President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe about the need for the reinstatement of the Interim Committee to manage Sri Lanka Cricket.