Navin talks of SLC presidency

NAVIN Dissanayake, MP for Nuwara Eliya district presiding at the press conference of the all-island inter-club tennis ball cricket tournament held yesterday at the Sugathadasa Sports Stadium hotel, said that he wishes to move over to hard ball cricket and work towards becoming the president of Sri Lanka Cricket.

"There are far too many splits in our cricket administration. Politics hampers the best being done for the furtherance of the game," said Dissanayake.

Navin's father, the late Gamini Dissanayake was a former president of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board. About 350 clubs will take part in the forthcoming tournament which is to be held in October, as a run up to the district and provincial tournament. - [R.D.]