Concluding that Sri Lanka's cricket team were in "crisis", the Sports Minister, Mahindananda Aluthgamage criticised the "politics" that he claimed had beset the team.
He vowed to give the players a "stern lecture" on their return home, when speaking to reporters in Colombo, following the team's poor performance in South Africa.
Aluthgamage said,
"The Sri Lanka cricket team is in a crisis situation. It is very unfortunate,"
"The team is not clicking together off-field and it has shown in the results on the field."
"Once the team returns, I plan to meet them,"
"I feel there is a lot of internal politics within the team that is spilling over to the cricket pitch."
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