ODI Global Cup 2023: Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga attracts critical allegations over BCCI secretary Jay Shah

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Sri Lanka cricket goes via a tumultuous length, marked by way of dismal efficiency within the ODI Global Cup 2023. Compounding their demanding situations, the World Cricket Council (ICC) has impulsively suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) club because of rapid considerations about executive interference. The improvement underscored a difficult section for Sri Lankan cricket, each off and on the sphere.

Amidst unfolding occasions, Arjuna Ranatunga, the previous skipper of Sri Lanka, has made weighty accusations in opposition to Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Regulate for Cricket in India (BCCI). Ranatunga alleges that Shah has exerted undue affect and interference within the affairs of Sri Lanka Cricket, bringing to gentle a contentious size to the continuing tendencies within the cricketing realm.

Ranatunga’s allegation on Jay Shah

Ranatunga asserted {that a} perceived connection between SLC officers and Jay Shah has led the BCCI to consider they are able to exert undue affect and regulate over Sri Lanka Cricket.

“As a result of the relationship between SLC officers and Jay Shah they (the BCCI) are beneath the impact that they are able to trample and regulate SLC,” Ranatunga stated, as quoted by way of the Sri Lankan newspaper Day by day Reflect.

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‘He’s simplest tough on account of his father’: Ranatunga

Ranatunga additional claimed that Shah is successfully working Sri Lanka Cricket, attributing the demanding situations confronted by way of SLC to drive exerted by way of Shah. The previous left-handed batter discussed that Shah’s affect stems from his father’s (Amit Shah) function as India’s House Minister, expressing fear about exterior forces negatively impacting the management of Lankan cricket.

“Jay Shah is working Sri Lanka Cricket. SLC is being ruining on account of drive from Jay Shah. One guy in India is ruining Sri Lankan cricket, he’s simplest tough on account of his father (Amit Shah), who’s India’s house Minister,” the 59-year-old added.