After Sri Lanka Sports Minister Harin Fernando signed a gazette on Thursday that prevents administrators from holding any position in cricket, whom family directly or indirectly involves in betting, the world governing body International Cricket Council (ICC) has also backed Harin by confirming it’s stance on Friday.
In one of the most historic decision to clean up Cricket in the Island, Harin Fernando Thursday signed a gazette to introduce regulations to bring Sri Lanka in line with International Cricket Council (ICC) provisions that ban individuals with connections to gambling firms from Sport’s administration.
The changes appear aimed at former SLC President Thilanga Sumathipala, who himself has admitted in parliament that his family is involved in betting and gambling. In this scenario, after new gazette, Sumathipala’s dream to rule the SLC life long has been crashed officially.
Cricket Age has the access of ICC code of ethics document and it reads:
“The ICC has enacted a code of ethics, which applies to all officials. Article 2 of the Code sets out the obligation that officials must comply with. Amongst others this obligations includes provisions relating to relationship with betting organisations. In particular, article 2.6 states:
An official may not have a business association (whether direct or indirect) or enter into any business arrangement (whether formal or informal) with any betting organisation that involves the payment of any monies to or by, or the conferring of any benefit(s) or disadvantage(s) upon or by, the official, either directly or indirectly, as a result of such association or arrangement unless such association or arrangement is disclosed to, and recorded and approved by, the ethics officer.”
2.6.2 – it is not permitted, and an official shall be in breach of this code of, any member of the official’s immediate family (being a spouse, parent, sibling, son or daughter, or son or daughter-in-law) has a controlling interest in a betting organisation, a substantial relationship with a betting organisation, or is employed in the day-to-day operational control of a betting organisation.
