Ranatunga lashes out!

Former Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Ranatunga is disappointed with SLC’s U-turn on the Big Three’s revised proposal and has lashed out for its shameful surrender.
Terming the stance of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) against the “Big Three” as disappointing, the former captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, said it could have an adverse impact in the long run. “I think the ‘Big Three’ — BCCI, CA and ECB — have different agendas, and I am very disappointed with (the) SLC, which took a U-turn and decided to support the revised draft recently,” said Ranatunga while talking to a leading Pakistani TV channel on Wednesday.
The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had originally refrained from voting on the revised proposal at the ICC meeting in Singapore but later the executive committee of the SLC decided to support the governance, finance and FTP changes in the ICC, which were proposed by the Big Three.
At the moment, Pakistan is the only cricketing nation, which has not approved the proposed revamp.
The 1996 World Cup winning Sri Lankan captain further said that had the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and SLC joined hands, the current situation would have been different.
“If Sri Lanka and Pakistan got together to work against these particular policies, I am sure we could have made a big impact,” said Ranatunga.
“The countries supportive of the Big-three proposal might get benefited in the near future but in the long run, all these countries would struggle. Ultimately the game of cricket will suffer,” said Ranatunga.

S.H. Moulana
Riyadh