Sri Lanka Face Rs 188 Crore Loss Due To Massive Decision By ICC: Report

Sri Lanka are reportedly set to endure an estimated lack of not less than USD 20 million (round Rs 188 Crore) after the Worldwide Cricket Council formally stripped the nation of internet hosting rights for the inaugural Girls’s Champions Trophy, with India confirmed as the brand new venue for the six-team event in February 2027. The ICC Board ratified the relocation on Tuesday, bringing an finish to Sri Lanka’s hopes of staging the occasion and delivering a big financial setback to the nation, which had anticipated the event to generate substantial returns via tourism, business exercise and world publicity. The occasion will now be held from February 14 to twenty-eight, 2027, with matches scheduled in Mumbai and Vadodara.

The choice is rooted within the ICC’s persevering with issues over the governance of Sri Lanka Cricket, which stays underneath a government-appointed Transformation Committee quite than an elected administration recognised by the world physique.

A report by Sri Lanka Day by day Mirror stated sources indicated that the ICC had warned Sri Lanka Cricket months in the past that its internet hosting rights have been underneath menace except the problems surrounding political interference have been resolved and long-pending board elections have been performed.

Regardless of these issues being communicated throughout the interim cricket administration, the matter was not delivered to the eye of the Sports activities Ministry and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake till just lately, the report claimed.

Estimates recommend that the nation may now miss out on not less than USD 20 million in potential income, the report added.

This isn’t the primary time Sri Lanka has paid a heavy worth for internet hosting alternatives due to the standoff over authorities interference.

In 2023, the ICC suspended Sri Lanka Cricket amid governance issues and subsequently moved the 2024 Males’s Beneath-19 World Cup from Sri Lanka to South Africa. The Girls’s Champions Trophy choice means Sri Lanka have now misplaced one other main ICC occasion inside three years for causes linked to the identical underlying concern.

The main focus will now flip to the proposed constitutional reforms and the timetable for contemporary SLC elections. The report stated members of the Transformation Committee count on the electoral course of to be accomplished earlier than the tip of 2026 “if parliamentary procedures proceed with out important delays.”

The inaugural Girls’s Champions Trophy will characteristic Australia, England, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, with West Indies (sixth in ICC rankings) and Sri Lanka (seventh), preventing for the ultimate spot.

All six sides will play one another in a round-robin format. The highest two groups will progress to the ultimate on February 28.

Sri Lanka’s place within the competitors will stay intact in the event that they qualify inside the highest six, regardless of the lack of internet hosting rights.

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