Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage has approved a new five-member selection committee for Sri Lanka Cricket, replacing the panel that operated under former chairman Pramodya Wickramasinghe.
According to a letter dated May 21, 2026, issued by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the minister acted under provisions of the Sports Law and Extraordinary Gazette regulations to clear the recommended panel.
Former Sri Lanka fast bowler Kapila Wijegunawardena will chair the committee. The other members are Amal Silva, Brendon Kuruppu, Waruna Waragoda and Vanessa De Silva. The recommendation has been forwarded to the secretary of the SLC Transformation Committee for further action.
The appointment is the first formal selection-panel reset since the Transformation Committee was installed following the previous administration’s resignation, and aligns with the structural overhaul that committee president Eran Wickramaratne has been driving.
Wijegunawardena, who played one Test and 17 ODIs for Sri Lanka in the early 1990s, returns to a senior cricket administration role. Brendon Kuruppu, the former Test wicketkeeper-batter, and Amal Silva, also a former international wicketkeeper, give the panel two players from the same generation. Waruna Waragoda has previously served as a domestic-level coach, while Vanessa De Silva represents the women’s game.
The reset comes the same day Wickramaratne disclosed that the Transformation Committee had ordered a forensic audit of SLC accounts, citing irregularities “far greater than initially feared.” The committee is also drafting a new SLC constitution as part of reforms agreed with the ICC.
