da roleta： Sri Lanka Cricket announced on Friday that Asantha de Mel, a former fast bowler and selector, would head a new, bloated seven-man selection panel during the coming year
da 888： Wisden Cricinfo staff22-May-2004Sri Lanka Cricket announced on Friday that Ashantha de Mel, a former fast bowler and selector, would head a new, bloated seven-man selection panel during the coming year. Lalith Kaluperuma, the previous chairman, is the only selector retained in the new panel, which will now sit down to pick Sri Lanka’s squad for the forthcoming tour of Australia.The size of the panel was increased from four to seven after the government, which retains responsibility under the sports law for the appointment ofselectors, rejected a Sri Lanka Cricket-proposed committee.This delayed the announcement of a fresh panel after the previous committee had completed its tenure on April 30. But a compromise agreement was reached bythe inclusion of both the board and government’s choices. Aravinda de Silva, the current vice-president of Sri Lanka Cricket and an influential selector during the past year, made himself unavailable for the new committee.The new selection panelAshantha De Mel
Shabbir Asgerally
KM Nelson
Lalith Kaluperuma
Don Anurasiri
Promodya Wickramasinghe
Ranjith Madurasinghe
