Sri Lanka's sports education minister annoying the nationwide cricket team's current performances, saying the side was riven by politics and in "disaster".Mahindananda Aluthgamage vowed to bring a severe speech to the players when they go back later on this month from their tour of South Africa, where they last week misplaced the Test series 2-1.
"The Sri Lanka cricket team is in a disaster condition. It is very unlucky," Aluthgamage told journalists in Colombo. "The players are not clicking together off-field and it has shown in the consequences on the meadow."
“Once the players return, I plan to convene them," Aluthgamage said. "I sense there is a set of interior politics within the players that is spilling over to the cricket field."
Since the departure of bowling star Muttiah Muralitharan in July 2010, Sri Lanka has won only one Test match, although they did arrive at the last of the one-day World Cup previous year.
Sri Lanka will at present play five one-day internationals in South Africa preliminary on Wednesday, before heading to a tri-series contest in Australia which also includes India.
The government has frequently been accused of interfering in the game and new unconcealed elections for the cricket slat were caught up in allegations of interference.Aluthgamage's commentary came after Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan answerable his side's conflicting outcome on the island's feeble domestic prospect.
It is very hard to discover good cricketers. We have to accurate our domestic structure. Coming from our club cricket to global cricket is a enormous dissimilarity," he said after behind the Test series.
