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Senior cricketers Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena today expressed disappointment with comments made to the media by the Sri Lanka Cricket Board Secretary Nishantha Ranathunga about their retirement from Twenty 20 cricket.
Speaking to the media at the Katunayake airport upon their return to Sri Lanka after winning the world Twenty 20 title, Jayawardena said that he and Sangakkara were not consulted before comments were made to the media by the Cricket board official.
Ranathunga had accused both Sangakkara and Jayawardena of speaking to the media about their retirement from T20 cricket before informing the board.
The comment was made while the team was in Bangladesh and Jayawardena said that he and Sangakkara should have been first asked if they had made such a statement to the media before criticizing them in the media.
“It was very disappointing that as a responsible official he went and made a statement like that without asking us first if we had spoken to the media,” Jayawardena said.
Sangakkara meanwhile agreed with the comments made by Jayawardena and said that as cricketers their job is to play cricket and focus on the game.
He said that their concerns over what was said to the media by the Cricket board official was taken up with national cricket selector Sanath Jayasuriya who was with the team in Bangladesh during the tournament.
Sangakkara said that there had always been pressure on some of the team members including from the media but the players have always been able to put aside that pressure and focus on playing good cricket. (Colombo Gazette)









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