Dubai: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) says it strongly stands by their cricketers who are alleged to have been involved in match-fixing and sex scandals.
An official statement released by the SLC says a report published in a leading Sri Lankan newspaper that pace bowler Dilhara Fernando has been on the International Cricket Council Anti-Corruption and Security Unit's (ACSU) radar for the past two years is wrong.
Elaborating, the SLC said that in May last year the ACSU travelled to Sri Lanka to interview Sri Lanka's cricketers with regard to the Lahore terrorist attack on the team bus.
Suspicious approach
During their visit, Fernando voluntarily reported what appeared to be a suspicious approach made to the team management and it was immediately referred to the ACSU, which in turn carried out a regulation interrogation with the pace bowler.
"We can confirm that no further information has been provided to us with regard to this incident or player that necessitates any action or raises any concern," the statement said.
However, more trouble seems to be in store for star opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan with reports on the internet alleging he has been banned from entering Zimbabwe by the country's authorities due to rape allegations. The charges have again been strongly refuted by Lankan cricket board officials.
