Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Mohan de Silva resigned from his board place on Saturday. His resignation comes after each widespread criticism of the board following Sri Lanka’s crashing out of the Men’s ODI World Cup, in addition to a launch from the nation’s sports activities minister asking SLC’s government committee to resign or face drastic motion.

De Silva didn’t present an official purpose for his resignation, however it’s understood to be at the least partly the consequence of Sri Lanka’s poor efficiency within the World Cup, although private causes had additionally performed an element.

Sri Lanka’s sports activities minister and SLC have been engaged in hostilities lasting over a yr, with the board’s use of funds (significantly throughout final yr’s Men’s T20 World Cup), the Lanka Premier League, and their operating of different home tournaments being explicit flashpoints.

SLC’s relationship with the sports activities minister usually tends to be pleasant, though it’s sometimes characterised by sabre-rattling. According to Sri Lanka’s sports activities regulation, the nation’s sports activities ministry oversees SLC, because it does different national-level sporting our bodies. However, within the case of cricket, the ICC’s official coverage of not permitting direct authorities interference within the sport has often prevented ministers from flexing their energy.

The final time the federal government put in an “interim committee” to behave instead of SLC’s member-voted government committee, again in 2014, the ICC held funds that have been as a result of be paid to the board in escrow.

In any case, the minister’s two-page launch accused SLC of – amongst quite a lot of faults – failing to offer a lot as an indoor coaching facility, or a swimming pool by which to conduct health and harm rehabilitation work. These, at the least, have been long-standing grouses from gamers themselves.

SLC’s officers have responded to the minister’s criticism with strongly-worded statements of their very own over the previous few months. But the lads’s workforce’s efficiency on the World Cup has shifted the facility dynamic, nevertheless briefly.