Shammi Silva has by all accounts has risen to be the main batsman as the prime administrator to putting Sri Lanka’s cricket on a firm footing.
A sportsman during his prime when he schooled at one of the country’s leading Colombo schools at Nalanda College, Shammi has got the true measure as to how the game should be administered having risen to the job as Sri Lanka Cricket’s President winning the big mandate contesting from the Colombo Cricket Club which he heads to wearing the game’s administrative cap entering a record third term in an uncontested unanimous straight reelection this year.
It has gone to highlight the popularity of the man among the cricket family in Sri Lanka that are the clubs which this year too firmly backed him as the father figure to further guide the destinies of cricket in Sri Lanka.
His accomplishments ever since he took over the mantle from his predecessor, Thilanga Sumathipala have been cut above weight to converting the cricket board to an overriding billion dollar organisation to taking care of cricketers from the island grassroots to a responsibility starting with ensuring school cricket, the cradle where development starts, is well taken care of by adequate funding to the domestic club to big time national level with the right financing to the right expertise to polishing up potential talent to optimum international standard.
By and large Shammi Silva, figure highly regarded by the international cricketing community, has been a weight in gold to Sri Lanka.
His greatest virtue has been to prevailing over critics in silencing them by the positive results he has produced.