{"id":583,"date":"2020-07-01T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=19715"},"modified":"2020-07-01T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:11:09","slug":"aravinda-de-silva-grilled-for-6-hours-in-2011-cwc-fixing-allegation-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aravinda-de-silva-grilled-for-6-hours-in-2011-cwc-fixing-allegation-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aravinda de Silva grilled for 6 hours in 2011 CWC fixing allegation investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aravinda De Silva, the former national selection committee chairman (NSCC), was questioned by the Sri Lankan police on Tuesday. This comes after former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage\u2019s alleged that the national team\u2019s loss to India in the 2011 World Cup final was fixed by \u201ccertain parties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>De Silva, the man of the match in Sri Lanka\u2019s 1996 World Cup triumph, was the first to be questioned by the newly created sports anti-corruption unit. Superintendent Jagath Fonseka said spoke to reporters and said, \u201cToday we started the investigation into (2011 World Cup) match-fixing allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further mentioned that following on from today\u2019s statement, they decided to summon Upul Tharanga, from the 2011 Sri Lanka finalist squad to record his statement the following day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ie-int-campign-ad\">\n<div id=\"gpt_ad_IE_ROS_INT_CAMP_DESK\" class=\"\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Tharanga, who will be questioned on Wednesday, opened for Sri Lanka in the CWC final making 2 runs of 20 balls.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>De Silva, the then chairman of selectors, was quizzed for over six hours by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Aluthgamage\u2019s claims invited a rapid rebuttal on account from Sri Lanka\u2019s former captain Kumar Sangakara and the final match centurion in Kumar Sangakara.<\/p>\n<p>Aluthgamage made the allegation on June 18th, however backtracked on his statement implying it was just his suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>A special police investigation unit recorded Mr. Aluthgamage\u2019s statement last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aravinda De Silva, the former national selection committee chairman (NSCC), was questioned by the Sri Lankan police on Tuesday. This\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":23722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}