Although Sri Lanka
Cricket terminated the services of B.H. Perera, better known as Podi
Sir, he has vowed to stage a comeback to the administration of the sport
through the backing of Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge.
Cricket sources told ‘The Island’ that Podi Sir is
awaiting the return of Lokuge from abroad to change the decision taken by
SLC to sack him.
A former school master of Ananda College, Podi Sir has survived
successive cricket administrations over the years despite being branded a
Thilanga Sumathipala loyalist. There had been a number of charge sheets
against him over a period of time and his services was once terminated by
the Vijaya Malalasekara administration in 2001. But he was promptly
brought back into office when Sumathipala assumed duties as board chairman
in 2003.
Cricket administrators finally lost patience when he held up
proceedings at a media briefing recently at SLC headquarters and sacked
him after an inquiry.
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