{"id":6245,"date":"2011-10-04T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:45:03","slug":"woman-to-head-2012-t20-world-cup-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/woman-to-head-2012-t20-world-cup-committee-6245\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman to head 2012 T20 World Cup committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"img-caption-wrap img-caption-wrap-left \"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st3.cricketcountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cricket\/6f44d9e9903df6886342ca9013b41f3f.jpeg\" title=\"Woman to head 2012 T20 World Cup committee\" alt=\"Woman to head 2012 T20 World Cup committee\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcaption\"> Upeka Abeykoon-Nell, who was appointed as the T20 World Cup tournament director, comes with a wealth of experience in event management \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombo: Oct 4, 2011 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday appointed Upeka Abeykoon-Nell as the Tournament Director of next year&#8217;s Twenty20 World Cup in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She will be heading the organising team of the event, to be held from September 18 to October 7 at four different venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abeykoon-Nell, a corporate PR personality, comes with a wealth of experience in event management. Her Australian husband Stan coached Sri Lanka &#8216;A&#8221; team in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket also announced the appointment of Sriyan Samararatne, a former manager of the national team, as the Director Logistics of the World T20.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday appointed Upeka Abeykoon-Nell as  the Tournament Director of next year&#8217;s Twenty20 World Cup in the  country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5146,818,56284,168,54217],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woman to head 2012 T20 World Cup committee  - Cricket Country<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/woman-to-head-2012-t20-world-cup-committee-6245\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woman to head 2012 T20 World Cup committee  - 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