More Then 5200 Sri Lankan Cricket Fans To Stage A Demonstration Tomorrow Urging Sanga And Mahela To Re Consider Their Resignations

More than 5200 Sri Lankan Cricket Fans are due to gather to the Independence Square in Colombo-07 at 3 p.m tomorrow to stage a peaceful Demonstration urging the resigned Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara and his Deputy Mahela Jayawardena to withdraw their Resignations.

Both Sangakkara and Mahela as well as the Sri Lanka's National Cricket Selectors headed by Aravinda De Silva step down from their posts following the loss of the ICC World Cup Cricket Finals concluded on  last Saturday.Although Sangakkara and Mahela insisted that they have resigned from their posts to groom a new leader for the National Cricket Team for the next World Cup scheduled to be held in New Zealand and Australia in 2015, there are speculations that due to the internal pressure which caused the loosing of the  final game which most Sri Lankans believe that the Team will win easily caused  them to resign from their posts.

16,900 Nurses Lost Their Voting Franchise In Tomorrow's Nursing Council Elections

Around 16,900 Nurses  lost their  franchise to  cast their votes at the first ever election to elect members to  the proposed Nursing Council which is due to be held tomorrow(09).These Nurses who are three fourth of the total number of nurses working in Government and Private Health Sectors lost their voting rights due to not getting registration of the Sri Lanka Medical 

Council (SLMC) according to the Health Ministry sources.

Only 7310 Nurses who had already received the registration of the SLMC will eligible to cast their votes to elect six members to the Nursing Council in tomorrow's elections the Ministry sources has confirmed.The reason for majority of nurses not receiving the SLMC registration is due to the non production of their Nurses Training Certificates issued by the Nurses Training Schools.It has been revealed that it take two or three years for a Nurse to received these certificates after the completion of three years Nurses Training due to the delay of issuing them .

Meanwhile the Government Nurses Union is having a different opinion of the issue as they stressed that it's illegal to not allowing majority of Nurses to cast their votes at the Nursing Council Elections and warned that  they will take this matter to the courts soon if the Health Ministry Officials not taken steps to allow these Nurses to cast their votes in tomorrow's election.

Sports Minister To Continue With Interim Cricket Board

The Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage today has said that the present Sri Lankan Interim Cricket Board  will remained unchanged .

Resigned Chief National Cricket Selector Aravinda De Silva Has Stressed That He was Not Influenced During The Selections

There has been no political interference for the any team selection activity while in office the chairman of the former Selection Committee Aravinda De Silva who has resigned along with other committee members yesterday said in his final Press Briefing held in Colombo today.

According to the Aravinda President Mahinda Rajapaksha was promised them to give a free handfor the selections before the world cup by saying that there will be no political or any other interferences for the selecting procedure .

He stressed that the rumours which says that he has resigned from the post due to an issue with President Rajapaksha were spreaded  mainly by the Indian Media and there was no truth in this.Aravinda has also said that he is happy to step down with a clear conscience knowing that there is no interference in to what he did.

National Cricket Selection Committee Members Have Resigned

The Four member National Cricket Selection Committee headed by Former Sri Lankan Batsman Aravinda De Silva has handed over their resignation letters to the Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage this morning.

The Selectors including Chairman Aravinda De Silva.Ranjith Fernanado,Amal Silva and Aswar Ali were handed over their resignation letters to the Minister.The resigned Selection Committee was appointed in 26th of May 2010.

Meanwhile the Chairman of the resigned Selection Committee Aravinda De Silva has said that they will make an official statement on their stand to the media by tomorrow(07th).

Deputy Captain Of Sri Lankan Cricket Team Mahela Jayawardena Too Resigned From His Post

Following the resignation of Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumara Sangakkara from One Day Captaincy his Deputy Mahela Jayawardena too handed over his resignation to the Sri Lankan Interim Board of Cricket today according to the Cricket Interim Board Secretary Nishantha Ranathunge.

The Cricket Interim Board Secretary has confirmed that Mahela agreed to hold the Deputy Captaincy of the Sri Lankan Team till the end of the World Cup.

He also said that the New Sri Lankan Cricket Captain and Deputy Captain will appointed within two weeks time.

Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara Resigned From One Day Captaincy

Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara has decided to resign from the Captaincy of  One Day and 20-20 Mini Overs Game Teams with immediate effect his manager has announced today.Sangakkra who lead the Sri Lankan Team during the recently concluded ICC World Cup Cricket Championships held in the sub continent handed over his resignation letter to the Sri Lankan Interim Cricket Board according to his Manager Charlie Austin.

Although he has resigned from One Day Captaincy he will resigned the Captaincy of the Sri Lankan Test Cricket Team after the forthcoming test series with England and Australia sangakkara's manager has confirmed.

Meanwhile In an official release issued by Sangakkara this evening he stressed that the decision of resigning from captaincy was taken even before the World Cup begins and he thinks that  it will help to groom a new captain for the Sri Lankan Cricket Team for the next Cricket World Cup scheduled in 2015.

However he stressed that he will be available for Captaining the National Cricket Team for the forthcoming England and Australian Tours if the Sri Lankan Cricket not selected a player yet to lead the test series against those teams.Referring on retiring from Cricket Sangakkara who is popularly known  as "Sanga" stressed that he will like to play cricket for another two or three years before retiring from the game.