“Wouldn’t it be good for you to move out of cricket at least now?”
Sources from Sri Lanka Cricket said that the President in a telephone conversation with Sri Lanka cricketer and parliamentarian Sanath Jayasuriya had asked “Sanath, wouldn’t it be good for you to move out of cricket at least now?” The President it is learnt had asked this following Jayasuriya’s dismal performance at the T20 Cricket World Cup currently being played.
“I think that you should now stop playing cricket and enter full time politics to serve the people who voted for you,” the President had told Sanath.
The President had then told his son Namal Rajapaksa, “Getting Sanath out of cricket at this point of time is a great service we can render to Sri Lankan cricket.”
The President it is learnt had also asked Namal not to lobby on behalf of Sanath with the Sri Lanka Cricket officials in future.
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