Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has denied the media reports claiming that the Sri Lankan players were involved in a drinking party inside the team hotel during the recent T20 World Cup. A newspaper reported on July 7 that various Sri Lankan players had a drinking party in the team hotel ahead of their tournament opener against South Africa.
Batting first in that fixture, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 77 and lost by six wickets.
The article later went viral on social media. SLC has called these reports "entirely false, fabricated, and baseless.”
“We vehemently believe that such false reporting unfairly damages the reputation of Sri Lanka Cricket, its officials, and the players,” wrote the board further in their statement.
SLC categorically and strongly refutes the contents of the article and confirms that no such incidents, as described, have occurred. Therefore, SLC states unequivocally that the news report is entirely false, fabricated, and baseless.
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Sri Lanka were one among the only four Test-playing nations who were eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup. They won only one of their four matches, beating the Netherlands by 83 runs, and had one rained-off game (against Nepal).
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