Sri Lanka Cricket dismisses allegations of wrongdoing in expenditure involving T20 World Cup 2022

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday dismissed allegations of wrongdoing in the expenditure involving the T20 World Cup in Australia last year.

Quoting a report by the National Audit Office, the media had highlighted several alleged misconduct by the SLC hierarchy including funding the visits of several individuals with personal connections to the SLC management.

Shammi Silva, the SLC president, acknowledged that the audit office report had been received with two weeks time allowance to respond.

“I deny that outsiders had been paid to visit Australia to watch the matches and the SLC had paid their expenditure, we are prepared to resign if the allegations could be proved,” Silva said, adding that vested interests were making attempts to sabotage the work of his administration.