australia banned former coach former sri lankan player dulip samaraweera 20 years for coaching

Cricket Australia has imposed a 20-year ban on former Sri Lankan international player Dilip Samaraweera. In fact, Cricket Australia has termed Dilip Samaraweera’s conduct as highly reprehensible. During this period, he will not hold any position in Cricket Australia, state cricket associations, BBL or WBBL clubs.

Dilip Samaraweera, 52, was found to have committed serious breaches of CA’s code of conduct during his time as an employee of Cricket Victoria. A complaint was made about his conduct by CA’s Code of Conduct Commission. This was followed by an investigation by Cricket Australia’s Integrity Department and a 20-year ban was imposed.

Let us tell you that Dilip Samaraweera played seven Tests and five ODIs against Sri Lanka between 1993 and 1995. He was the assistant coach of Victoria Women and Women’s Big Bash League Melbourne Stars for a long time. According to ESPNcricinfo report, he was to be promoted to the role of senior coach of the Victoria Women’s team earlier this year, but due to the policies of the province, he was refused appointment. After this, he had to resign after just two weeks of working on this post.