The question here is not to discuss what the TCK principal should have done or not done [it'll be discussed later]- but why should Trinity be deprived of a title - for NO FAULT OF THEIRS?.
To incorporate & accommodate the rules into the final ruling - it would have been only FAIR to make TCK a joint champion. Anyway this is my opinion of the matter.
Regarding the TCK principal sitting on the board - at first glance it looks unethical.
However according to the link I've posted above, he has said:-
1. I am the chairman of the tournament committee and sit in the discipline committee too. I automatically sit in the table because of the positions I hold;
2. It’s not my decision or the President Ranjith Chandrasekara’s decision. If anybody thinks like that, they are totally wrong.
At THAT stage Isipathana had not produced ALL the evidence.
Its clear from this:- "From the evidence we got, there was nothing for us to find out something wrong. But subsequently they went to the Education Ministry along with some photographs. They were not handed over to us. We took our stance from the data we had"
Even the Ex-co had agreed to accept this. ["After that we let the executive committee of the SLSRFA know about it and they all agreed to it sans the Isipathana MIC"]
I've reproduced parts of the the above article - as I'm not in agreement with the above comments.
This is how I see it, its my take- from the above comments,made in the article.