SLC Chairman, secretary rush to India

21 June 2011 05:09 am Views - 8969

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chairman, D. S. de Silva and secretary, Nishantha Ranatunga will be in India to meet the Indian cricket board officials tomorrow (22) and they will try to convince them to send few players' to participate in the forthcoming Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL), Sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said.

The minister said, "I have instructed the chairman and the secretary to rush to India and convince the Indian board officials to allow their players to play in our tournament".

"The chairman will be directly arriving from London, where he has been with the Sri Lanka team and Ranatunga will join him from Sri Lanka".
"We have good rapport with the Indian board and I am sure the issue will be sorted out amicably".

"The first edition of this tournament will go ahead as scheduled (July 19 to August 4, 2011). ", the minister insisted.

The minister also denied the roel of ex-BCCI official, Lalit Modi's hand in SLPL. "I can say with 100 % assertion there is no role of Lalit Modi in SLPL. I am unaware about his trip to this country, if he had made some two months ago".

Sandeep M. Bhammer, the Chairman of Somerset Entertainment Ventures (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, when approached for his comments, too insisted, "we are the marketing agents and the SLPL is being hosted by SLC". (Daily Mirror online)