Sri Lanka women's cricket team ''forced into sexual favors'' Admits Ministry of Sports

Sri Lanka women’s cricket team ”forced into sexual favors” Admits Ministry of Sports: Sri Lanka women’s cricket team ”forced into sexual favors” Admits Ministry of Sports: Sri Lankan cricket is under the microscope after it emerged that members of Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team were forced to perform sexual favors’ in order to keep their places in the team.An investigation by the country’s Sports Ministry said on Friday that it had found “shameful” evidences of sexual harassment in a probe that was launched last year following reports that a player had been dropped for refusing to have sex with cricketing officials.

A three-member committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Nimal Dissanayake, submitted its findings in a report to the sport’s ministry on Wednesday.

The ministry in its statement said, “The committee report found evidence of sexual harassment by members of the Sri Lanka cricket women’s management team against several members of the Sri Lanka cricket women’s team,  “The (sports) minister intends to take disciplinary actions against those members where evidence has been found.”
Neither the ministry nor the Sri Lankan Cricket Board have yet given any details of what evidence have been found, which officials were involved, or about the kind of action would be taken against the perpetrator.
Sri Lankan Children’s Minister Rosy Senanayake told news agency AFP: “It is a shameful incident,”
Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team is ranked 6th in the world ODI rankings.