SLC Ex-co to look into 2010 Asia Cup incident - Dayasiri

The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Executive Committee will look into an incident involving an Indian cricketer during the 2010 Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, where a woman had reportedly entered an Indian cricketer’s room at the Kandalama Hotel and remained there overnight and the offering of a bribe connected with it, Minister of Sports Dayasiri Jayasekara told Parliament yesterday.

“SLC had accepted that an incident had taken place during the Indian tour of Sri Lanka in 2010, a letter has been directly sent to the manager of the Indian cricket team with copy to secretary, the additional executive officer and the anti-corruption officer of the International Cricket Council by the then security adviser of SLC Major General Lawrence Fernando and that there had been an attempt of taking a bribe,” the Minister said in response to an oral question raised by MP S. M. Marikar in the House last afternoon.

However, the Minister said there is no evidence other than a copy of a letter written by Major General Fernando.

“SLC does not have any written information or a report regarding any investigation,” the Minister said.

“There isn’t any remark regarding this incident in the minutes of the interim committee meeting of SLC in 2010,” the Minister added.

Marikar who raised a supplementary question alleged that the matter has been swept under the carpet by a former cricket administrator as the player in question played for an Indian Premier League team that had links to a relative of the former Indian Cricket Board President.

The Minister said SLC will take it up in its next executive meeting.

“I assure you that the matter will be taken up by the SLC executive committee when it meets again,” the Minister said.