Sri Lanka Cricket Board elections as stipulated by the ICC will be held on or before December 15.
Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage last week directed that the present Interim Committee headed by Upali Dharmadasa would be dissolved on November 14.
The Sports Minister said: “The Interim Committee will be dissolved before November 15. Thereafter 21 days would be given to hand over the nominations and the elections will be held on or before December 15.”He told the Sunday Times Sports that until such time the elections were held the Ministry Secretary would handle the SLC affairs as its competent authority.
In April this year, the ICC made an announcement to the effect that every full member-state should have an elected body governing its cricket affairs and gave time till January 2013 to do so.
It appears that the elections are to be a three-pronged affair.
The incumbent Interim Committee president Upali Dharmadasa who is at present in India with a high powered delegation on a bridge building visit is tipped to be one of the contestants while his brother Jayantha who headed the interim committee when it was first formed in 2004 is also likely to be in the fray.
Upali and his delegations are in India at present meeting their BCCI counterparts in an attempt to get back the ODI series against them back on track when the two countries meet in July-August 2012.
The India-Sri Lanka cricket relations have soured in recent times and India cancelled the Limited overs series in 2012 limiting the duel to be only a three Test match affair when the new ICC Future Tours Programme was drawn up recently.
Besides, the Dharmadasa brothers ruling party parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala, a former President, had recently mentioned to our sister Sinhala Daily “Lankadeepa’ that if an election was called for the SLC he would definitely be a contestant.
The Sumathipala-led cricket administration was the last elected body before it was dissolved by the then Sports Minister Jeewan Kumaranatunga in 2004 and an interim committee headed by Jayantha Dharmadasa was appointed.
Even prior to that Sumpathipala-led cricket bodies were ousted by several Sports Ministers who appointed interim committees.
However the Sunday Times learns that there is a likelihood of one of these candidates getting elected uncontested. | 
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