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Sri Lanka sacks cricket board days after World Cup thrashing

Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews is clean-bowled by India’s Mohammed Shami

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe sacked the national cricket board on Monday, days after a humiliating defeat by India at the World Cup.

Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket — the richest sports organisation on the financially-stricken island — for months over allegations of widespread corruption.

The country’s 1996 World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna…

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