ICC suspects Nishantha Ranatunge’s involvement in match fixing

The ICC it is learnt suspects Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee Secretary Nishantha Ranatunge’s involvement in match fixing. The suspicion had been caused following an inquiry held in to the matter after receiving information to the effect from former Sri Lanka Cricket manager, Brendan Kuruppu.

It has been said that Brendan Kuruppu was removed from his post as Sri Lanka Cricket Manager by Nishantha Ranatunge after hearing that Kuruppu had informed the ICC details about match fixing.

It has now been revealed that the defeats experienced by the Sri Lanka cricket team, especially the defeats in the Sri Lanka-Pakistan test match in Galle last June, Sri Lanka-Pakistan 20-20 match in August and the Sri Lanka-India one day match at Raj Court (where Sri Lanka chased a target of 414 runs and fell short of only three runs to win the game) were all fixed.

  Meanwhile, the Asian Cricket Council it is learnt had stopped the tender to book hotel rooms for the Asian Cricket Championship scheduled to be held in Dambulla next June after learning that Nishantha Ranatunge had organized a commission of US$ 5 per room booked by him in hotels during the tournament.

It is also learnt that Ashley de Silva is also party to the commission deal.

However, Sri Lanka Cricket sources said that Nishantha Ranatunge had also taken US$ 1 million from the Nimbus Company during a discussion with company representatives in Singapore to resolve the issues between Sri Lanka Cricket and Nimbus.