Sri Lanka Cricket hires new lawyers for Dhanushka Gunathilaka
Danushka Gunathilaka. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)
Lawyer Ananda Amaranath, who was handling Dhanushka Gunathilaka’s case in court on Monday (November 07), has withdrawn from the case.
He said he had been retained by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Sri Lanka High Commission.
Defence barrister Sam Pararajasingham and solicitor Sara Black represented the player at the suppression hearing today (November 09).
Meanwhile Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has decided to pay legal fees on behalf of Dhanushka Gunathilaka.
Former Legal Head of the SLC Chanaka Senaratna said most of the members of the Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee are in Australia and they can take a decision from there.
Gunathilaka played a first-round Twenty20 World Cup match against Namibia on October 16 but was ruled out of the remainder of the tournament with a hamstring injury.
He has played nearly 100 one-day and T20 internationals for Sri Lanka as well as a handful of Tests.
The case is due to return to court on January 12.
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Why should this scoundrel be defended by SLC?
As a citizen of Sri Lanka, he should receive nothing more than Consular support.
Saw a SLC officer on TV saying ‘the accused is a tharunaya (who has uncontrollable sexual urges) and the accuser is a sudu gani looking for a svami purushaya in Tinder.
How shameful !
As things stand at the moment, the newly released information around the incident, suggests that this guy going to land in jail for some years. In different societies norms and signals are different and have different meanings. In the countries with so called ‘Western cultures’ when it come to sex, ‘no’ means NO. Does not matter at what stage you are. Going for a drink at night or being invited to go home with at late night does not mean anything else much in his defense, Newly released information indicates the woman had gone for a medical examination. If there are enough medical evidence to prove her claims, SL’s Dhanushka Gunathilaka can dream a long stay in a Aussie jail playing bed cricket for the boredom.