<p>Colombo: Incumbent <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/sri-lanka-cricket">Sri Lanka Cricket</a> (SLC) President Shammi Silva is set to be re-elected to the top post for his third successive two-year term during the Board's Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on March 31.</p>.<p>In the list of nominations declared by SLC’s election committee for the election of office bearers for 2025-27 term, Silva will only face 'friendly fire' from his own camp.</p>.<p>Therefore, he is assured of re-election at the AGM on March 31, according to analysts.</p>.Sri Lanka Cricket rope in Ian Bell as batting coach ahead of away Test series vs England.<p>In December last year, Silva succeeded India’s current ICC Chairman Jay Shah as the Asian Cricket Council boss.</p>.<p>A businessman, Silva clashed with the then Sri Lanka sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe in 2023. The minister’s appointment of an interim committee due to a purported personal clash with Silva caused Sri Lanka’s suspension from the ICC.</p>.<p>As an immediate fall out of the ICC suspension, the U-19 Men’s World Cup scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in January last year was shifted to South Africa.</p>.<p>The sports minister was later sacked and the court reinstated the SLC administration of Silva.</p>.<p>Since Sri Lanka won the 1996 World Cup, the cash-rich body’s positions became a matter of prestige for the local business leaders. There have been much acrimony at annual elections among rival camps.</p>.<p>In 1998, the involvement of the then Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s security division at the AGM caused fisticuffs between rival factions. </p>
<p>Colombo: Incumbent <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/sri-lanka-cricket">Sri Lanka Cricket</a> (SLC) President Shammi Silva is set to be re-elected to the top post for his third successive two-year term during the Board's Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on March 31.</p>.<p>In the list of nominations declared by SLC’s election committee for the election of office bearers for 2025-27 term, Silva will only face 'friendly fire' from his own camp.</p>.<p>Therefore, he is assured of re-election at the AGM on March 31, according to analysts.</p>.Sri Lanka Cricket rope in Ian Bell as batting coach ahead of away Test series vs England.<p>In December last year, Silva succeeded India’s current ICC Chairman Jay Shah as the Asian Cricket Council boss.</p>.<p>A businessman, Silva clashed with the then Sri Lanka sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe in 2023. The minister’s appointment of an interim committee due to a purported personal clash with Silva caused Sri Lanka’s suspension from the ICC.</p>.<p>As an immediate fall out of the ICC suspension, the U-19 Men’s World Cup scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in January last year was shifted to South Africa.</p>.<p>The sports minister was later sacked and the court reinstated the SLC administration of Silva.</p>.<p>Since Sri Lanka won the 1996 World Cup, the cash-rich body’s positions became a matter of prestige for the local business leaders. There have been much acrimony at annual elections among rival camps.</p>.<p>In 1998, the involvement of the then Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s security division at the AGM caused fisticuffs between rival factions. </p>