SLC was suspended on November 10 for being in “severe breach of its obligations as an ICC Member”. Particularly, this needed to do with “the requirement to handle its affairs autonomously and be sure that there is no such thing as a authorities interference within the governance, regulation and/or administration of cricket in Sri Lanka”.
The ICC Board stated it had been monitoring the scenario for the reason that suspension and “at the moment are glad that SLC are not in breach of membership obligations”.
When the suspension was introduced, it was understood to be a warning to Sri Lanka, and ESPNcricinfo had reported that the SLC itself had requested the suspension as an example to Sri Lanka’s authorities that the ICC wouldn’t tolerate additional meddling on its half.
Since then, Sri Lanka have hosted Zimbabwe for a white-ball sequence, in early 2024. In early November, Sri Lanka’s sports activities minister Roshan Ranasinghe had sacked the SLC board and put in an interim committee headed by Arjuna Ranatunga, however Sri Lanka’s courts reinstated the board a day later by issuing a 14-day keep order on the gazette that had dissolved the board.
However when the ICC suspension got here, it was the elected SLC Board that was working cricket within the nation. SLC had change into the second Full Member to be suspended by ICC within the current previous after Zimbabwe Cricket was suspended in 2019 for related causes.
