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Wisden Cricinfo staff15-Sep-2003The Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) has followed therecent example of Cricket Australia, and decided to change its corporateidentity. The board will now be called Sri Lanka Cricket following aunanimously passed resolution at an Extraordinary General Meeting on Sunday."We decided that we wanted to move with the times and give the board abetter corporate image," explained Mohan de Silva, the BCCSL secretary. "Byrenaming the board we are falling in line with the thinking in other boardsand within the International Cricket Council management."The new name, and logo, will officially be launched on September 22,when Ehsan Mani, the ICC’s new president, makes a courtesy visit to Sri Lanka.The BCCSL membership also backed executive committee plans to change themanagement structure of the cricket board, and launch a special audit intothe 27-month period of interim control that had preceded its electionearlier this year.A new commercial management board, which will be called Sri Lanka CricketIncorporated, will be registered as a Board of Investment (BOI) company."The management board of Sri Lanka Cricket Incorporated will still beresponsible to the constitution under the new structure," explained deSilva. "But the new structure will have significant financial benefits, suchas reductions in taxation and duty."The decision to carry out a special audit into the activities of theprevious interim committee was prompted by the recent decision of aSingapore tribunal that a broadcasting contract with WSG Nimbus had beenwrongfully cancelled. WSG Nimbus are currently claiming US$ 11 million indamages from the BCCSL."The membership has written to us concerning various irregularities duringthe interim period and we have to accommodate their concerns," said deSilva. "This is not a witch hunt but we [the executive committee] cannot beheld responsible for the decisions made during this period."