Sri Lanka Cricket has suspended Danushka Gunathilaka from all forms of the International cricket for breaching "player code of conduct".
Sri Lankan cricket administrative body, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has suspended the batting all-rounder Danushka Gunathilaka from all forms of the International cricket for breaching "player code of conduct".
Without giving out the specific details, the SLC statement said that the decision was taken after the player was found guilty of violating the code of conduct.
"The decision to suspend the player was taken following an initial inquiry conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket after the team management reported that the player has violated the ''Code of Conduct'," the SLC statement said.
However, the suspension comes after a Norwegian woman has accused Gunathilaka's friend of raping her in a hotel room where Gunathilaka was present, an AFP report said quoting an official.
According ti the report, Gunathilaka and his friend took two Norwegian women to the hotel where the player was staying in Colombo in the early hours of Sunday. One of the women later accused the second man, a British passport-holder of Sri Lankan origin, of raping her and police arrested him.
The 26-year-old "is under arrest and we are continuing our investigations," a police official told AFP. "A Norwegian tourist made the complaint of rape."
He said there was no allegation against Gunathilaka, who is currently Sri Lanka's best-performing batsman in an ongoing tour by South Africa.
The suspension will be implemented immediately after the ongoing second test of the two-match series against South Africa at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.
Moreover, the 27-year-old will be stripped off his match fees for the ongoing test match.
The issue of misconduct is not a new thing with the right-hand batsman.
Earlier, International Cricket Council (ICC) had admonished the Sri Lankan player for breaching level 1 of the ICC code of conduct by giving Bangladeshi player Tamim Iqbal a send-off while he was on his way to the dressing room. The incident happened in January during the final match of the T20I tri-series against Bangladesh.
In 2017, the batsman was suspended for six one-day matches following a display of poor attitude towards training in a series against India. He was subsequently dropped from the ODI squad selected for the Pakistan series.
Sri Lanka won the ongoing two-match test series 2-0 against South Africa.
(With ANI and AFP Inputs)
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