{"id":7711,"date":"2023-11-06T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=370381"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:25:00","slug":"interim-committee-led-by-arjuna-ranatunga-takes-charge-of-sri-lanka-cricket-affairs-amid-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/interim-committee-led-by-arjuna-ranatunga-takes-charge-of-sri-lanka-cricket-affairs-amid-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Committee Led by Arjuna Ranatunga Takes Charge of Sri Lanka Cricket Affairs Amid Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has appointed an interim committee, headed by former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, to oversee the operations of Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes after the suspension of the executive committee due to allegations of irregularities, corruption, misconduct, and dereliction of duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sports Minister meets newly appointed Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee headed by Arjuna Ranatunga <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SpS5jwlFUd\">pic.twitter.com\/SpS5jwlFUd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NewsWire \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@NewsWireLK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsWireLK\/status\/1721424003666210873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister, Roshan Ranasinghe, has entrusted the interim committee with the responsibility of conducting an independent and transparent investigation into the alleged irregularities and submitting a detailed report.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has been granted the authority to take necessary actions and implement recommendations outlined in a special audit report issued by the Auditor General on September 11, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to addressing the ongoing issues, the interim committee has been mandated to propose recommendations and establish effective administrative measures to prevent future mismanagement within Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has appointed an interim committee, headed by former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2139],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-arjuna-ranatunga"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}