If you are blaming someone, before that, you must see yourself in the mirror, whether you are also not guilty of the wrongdoing.
But, deputy speaker in the Sri Lanka government and the president of SLC, thilanga sumathipala doesn’t believes in the theory, as he openly criticised his own government’s minster of external afairs Ravi karunanayake over the charges of corruption and demanded his resignation!
“He should resign from his post” Sumathipala told in a media brief, by referring Minister Karunanayake, who is facing serious charges, for his involvement in BOND scam.
Irony, though, is that sumathipala has himself been accused of plenty of serious charges for misuse of the money at SLC, as the board has been in the news for all kind of wrongdoings.
Here are the classic examples, how he has been openly benefitting his loyals, spending millions on non-cricket matters, without any fear and accountability-
1. Countless facilities to sports minister Dayasiri
The sports minister is not without gain for his role of a puppet under Thilanga . Countless benefits including free foreign tours and cash disbursements are being lavished on him out of the cricket association funds, and towards building the minister’s vote base in Kurunegala district. In fact the minister even got an opportunity to earn ‘merits’ by distributing bottles of water for the drought relief victims at Kuliyapitiya sponsored by the ‘ SL Cricket Aid’. These were the bottles of water which remained of those collected for distribution to flood relief victims. It were the trainers at the Cricket association who were deployed for this task.
2. Just for one song and to move the lips, half million rupees down the drain!
This national awards ceremony night was organized in an unholy haste with the ulterior motive to please the members of sports society officials who will be using their votes at the cricket board elections .These days many millions of rupees are being spent towards their sumptuous dinners and unlimited liquor consumption .In addition , a sum of Rs. 8,316 ,197.00 was paid to ‘ShowTown Co.’ for their event management at the ‘international’ awards ceremony held earlier. This colossal sum of nearly Rs. eight and half million being spent towards this is most rudely shocking . The owners of Show Town are Bhathiya and Santush, and the Co. is located in their home. Bhathiyas who undertook to manage everything have claimed Rs. 175,000.00 for just a song they sang that day !! Jagath Wickremesinghe and Umariya have charged Rs. 1,60,000.00 and Rs. 150,000.00 respectively for each song. What is most intriguing and dismaying in this racket is , a further amount of Rs. 45,000.00 has been collected for each track to provide background music for each song . All these profligate expenditures are shown in the image hereunder . This can be magnified by clicking on it.
3. Few months ago, SLC also published unaudited accounts showing a net income growth of Rs. 400 million, which was questioned in so many aspects by the media and general public as for the legitimacy of the unaudited accounts as well as the purpose of publishing such accounts in the middle of an international tournament.
4. Early this year, SLC planned a super provincial tournament, and spent millions of ruppes in the opening ceremony itself. But later, after the court objection, they forced to scrapped the tournament.
5. As recently as last Sunday, SLC conducted a gathering at a posh hotel in Colombo unnecessarily, especially when they could organise it in the SLC headquarter, two kilometers away from the hotel.
These are amongst very few allegations, media has continuesly been highlighting to expose the all kind of wrongdoings within SLC. Mr. Sumathipala needs to give answer of all these, before suggesting others to resign, over corruption charges! 
