Sri Lankan Cricket Vice President, K Mathivanan, has resigned from his post after he was forced to withdraw from a local club (The Colts Cricket Club) election.
His withdrawal now frees the path for the SLC secretary, Nishanth Ranatunga to take up the post unopposed. A similar thing happened in 2012 as well when the candidate opposing Ranatunga withdrew.
"Last year I was in charge of cricket affairs and chairman of the district cricket and school cricket committees, but this
year I was not given anything," said Mathivanan.
He added that he had been unhappy with his role for quite some time now. "I have not been happy at my job in Sri Lanka cricket for the last four or five months. Everyone knows what's happening at SLC and I thought I must safeguard my reputation and just step down," he said.
This was Mathivanan's second term as vice-president. He had also been secretary of interim committees on two previous occasions.
