Action has been taken again against a Sri Lankan coach who was already facing a long ban for misbehaving with a female player. Cricket Australia has taken this action against former Sri Lankan Test cricketer Dalip Samaraweera, who has been involved in coaching women’s cricket in Australia for the last several years. According to reports, Dalip Samaraweera, the long-time coach of the women’s team in Cricket Victoria, has been found guilty of inappropriate behavior with another female player, after which he has been banned for 10 years. This ban has been imposed by Cricket Australia, under which he will not be able to get involved in coaching in Australia in any way. Earlier too, Samaraweera had been banned for 20 years after being found guilty in a similar case involving a female cricketer.
20 years ban has already been imposed
According to the report of ESPN-Cricinfo, this is the second case of Samaraweera, who played 7 Test matches for Sri Lanka in the 1990s, being the personal coach of a player. Although during this period he was associated with Victoria Cricket only. The surprising thing is that Samaraweera has denied these allegations but he refused to take part in the investigation. In such a situation, Cricket Australia has banned him for 10 years due to violation of the code of conduct. Although their ban will not be separate for 20 years, rather both the bans will run together. In this way, he will not be able to be a part of any kind of cricket coaching in Australia till 2044.
52-year-old Samaraweera was first banned in September this year when he was accused of misbehaving with a female player. Then he was found guilty in the investigation by Cricket Australia’s Code of Conduct Commission. His behavior was described as highly condemnable and he was banned for 20 years. Although, two weeks before this ban, he had resigned from the post of coach of Victoria Cricket Team, but the reason for it was different. He wanted to make his brother Thilan Samaraweera a part of the coaching staff but he was not allowed to do so due to conflict of interest, after which he resigned.
Cricket career did not work out
Dalip Samaraweera played 7 matches for Sri Lanka between 1993 and 1995 but he did not get much success and was able to score only 211 runs. Apart from this, he had scored 91 runs in 5 ODI matches. Duleep’s brother Thilan Samaraweera definitely got a lot of success in international cricket. Younger brother Thilan played 81 Test matches for Sri Lanka and scored 5462 runs, in which he had an average of 48 and also scored 14 centuries, while also scoring 30 half-centuries.
