{"id":170479,"date":"2026-05-21T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170479"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:23:27","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-appoints-new-selectors-as-board-revamp-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170479","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Cricket appoints new selectors as board revamp continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71007685\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Sri Lanka\u2019s newly appointed cricket administrators on Thursday named a five-member selection panel headed by former player Kapila Wijegunawardena.<\/p>\n<p>The sports ministry said it had approved the new selectors and expected them to ensure \u201cgreater transparency and efficiency\u201d in the team selection process.<\/p>\n<p>The government appointed an interim committee to run Sri Lanka Cricket late last month after elected office-bearers resigned en masse following political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the selection panel are Amal Silva, Brendon Kuruppu, Varuna Waragoda and Vanessa de Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 21, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/sri-lanka-cricket-new-selection-panel-list-of-members\/article71007685.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s newly appointed cricket administrators on Thursday named a five-member selection panel headed by former player Kapila Wijegunawardena. The sports ministry said it had approved the new selectors and expected them to ensure \u201cgreater transparency and efficiency\u201d in the team selection process. The government appointed an interim committee to run Sri Lanka Cricket late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFP_B3KE3EA.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-IlF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}