Sri Lanka‘s World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga accused the country’s cricket board of mishandling the ball-tampering scandal that resulted in captain Dinesh Chandimal getting fined and banned.
Ranatunga, a long-time critic of the board, said officials failed to help Chandimal, coach Chandika Hathurusingha and manager Asanka Gurusinha during the second Test against the West Indies.
Chandimal was caught on camera applying a substance to the ball and was later found guilty of altering the condition of the ball. Chandimal was banned for his action and, along with Hathurusingha and Gurusinha, was later charged with acting contrary to spirit of the game as the team refused to take the field in time during the St Lucia Test.
“There is no one at the cricket board to advise the team,” Ranatunga said.
“If they knew that Chandimal had done something wrong, they should have worked out an amicable solution without escalating the problem.”
Chandimal lost his appeal against the ball tampering ban and was out of the third and final Test in Barbados.
