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SLC appoints new six-member selection committee with immediate effect

The Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) has appointed a new Selection Committee comprising six members with immediate effect. The six-member committee was approved by Sri Lanka's Minister of Youth and Sports Namal Rajapaksa.

Former Sri Lanka pacer Pramodya Wickramasinghe has been named as the new Chairman of Selectors. The other five members include Romesh Kaluwitharana, Hemantha Wickramaratne, Varuna Waragoda, S. H. U Karnain and B.A. Thilaka Nilmini Gunarathne in the panel. 

Wickramasinghe has played 40 Tests and 134 ODIs for Sri Lanka. The right-arm medium pacer has scalped 85 wickets in Tests while 109 in ODIs respectively.  

The new Selection Committee has been formed after Ashanta de Mel stepped down from the post of the Chairman in January earlier this year citing personal reasons. 

'We respect Ashantha's decision and thank him for the services he rendered to Sri Lanka Cricket during his tenure as the Chairman of the Cricket Selection Committee'' said Ashley De Silva, CEO of Sri Lanka Cricket then. 

He had also stepped down as the team manager citing personal reasons earlier. 

Ashantha had been holding the post since World Cup 2019 and had taken the job only as a make-shift arrangement. He had served as the Chairman of Selectors twice, first 2012 and then in 2018.



 

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