The usually vociferous Kandy Sports Club has for some mysterious reason gone silent along with the rest of the seven teams that contested the Nippon Paint League rugby tournament that was strangled into a halt by politics and government bureaucracy.
The matches game to a sudden halt three weeks ago when Kandy SC was poised to win the title and two more matches left for all teams in the Cup and Plate segments after former Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa sacked the democratically elected membership of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) and installed it with a so-called Competent Authority which ordered the stoppage of the championship.
No valid reason was given for the stoppage of the matches and rugby is the only sport in the country that is not being played at the moment while the clubs too which invested millions to prepare their players have timidly caved in to the decision to stop the League.