International Cricket Council representatives currently in Sri Lanka, including Imran Khwaja and Devajit Sakia, met President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo as discussions continue over the future direction of cricket administration on the island.
The meeting comes during a high-profile ICC visit following the resignation of the previous Sri Lanka Cricket leadership. ICC officials have also held discussions with the newly installed SLC administration at SLC headquarters, with attention focused on governance and structural reforms in the sport, Newswire reported.
The visit follows the appointment of a nine-member Cricket Transformation Committee by Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage after the Shammi Silva-led ExCo stepped down. Chaired by Eran Wickremaratne, the committee has been tasked with overseeing cricket administration and implementing reforms until fresh elections are held.
The ICC delegation’s call on the President is a notable signal that the world body is treating the SLC governance change as a presidential-level matter rather than a routine sports administration issue. ICC engagement at this tier is unusual and tends to surface when member-board governance is under formal review or when a third-party administration arrangement is being negotiated.
The visit comes at a sensitive moment for Sri Lankan cricket, with a parallel BCCI-led ICC team having already been in Colombo on governance discussions and the Transformation Committee yet to publish its reform timeline. The outcome of the ICC’s discussions with both the Presidential Secretariat and the interim SLC administration will set the framework for whether elections proceed under existing constitutional arrangements or under a revised governance model.
