Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa yesterday met former Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake to discuss the current state of the country's country's cricket administration.

Posting a photograph of the meeting on Facebook, Dissanayane said he would extend his support to resurrect Sri Lanka's cricket irrespective of the political differences between him and the government.

Navin's Dissanayake's father, the late Gamini Dissanayake, was instrumental in obtaining Test status for Sri Lanka in the early 1980s.

During his tenure as the Sports Minister in 2015, Dissanayake ran into a storm as he attempted to set up an interim committee to run the country's cricket administration.