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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10551314" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://static.cricketnext.com/pix/sitepix/02_2011/sangakkara2308_630.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara is likely to be called for  an explanation by the country's Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage  over his MCC Spirit of Cricket lecture delivered at Lord's, where he  launched an attack against his own cricket establishment.According  to the state news agency 'Lankapuwath', Aluthgamage had called the  newly elected interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to examine  the remarks made by the former captain.Sangakkara in his speech on Monday in London, accused Sri Lankan  cricket administrators of causing "rift, ill-feeling and distrust" in  the side.Sangakkara slammed SLC for corrupt practices and hinted  that he was forced to step down from captaincy after only two years at  the helm.Sangakkara, who resigned after the World Cup defeat to  India in April this year, said with Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup victory,  the cricket administration in the island had changed "from a  volunteer-led organisation run by well-meaning men of integrity into a  multimillion-dollar organisation that has been in turmoil ever since".Without taking names, Sangakkara voiced his concern at the direction the sport in Sri Lanka is now heading."Players  from within the team itself became involved in power games within the  board. Officials elected to power in this way in turn manipulated player  loyalty to achieve their own ends. At times, board politics would spill  over into the team causing rift, ill feeling and distrust," Sangakkara  had said.Sangakkara felt lack of accountability has been the bane  of Lankan cricket which has left the board without consistent  administration."Accountability and transparency in administration  and credibility of conduct were lost in a mad power struggle that would  leave Sri Lankan Cricket with no consistent and clear administration."Presidents  and elected executive committees would come and go; government-picked  interim committees would be appointed and dissolved," he said.<a href="http://cricketnext.in.com/news/sangakkara-in-trouble-over-lords-speech/58560-13.html" target="_blank">cricketnext.in</a></blockquote>

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