COLOMBO: The crisis in the Sri Lankan Cricket Control Board has spilled over to the International Cricket Council (ICC) with cricket's governing body declining to permit the newly nominated interim board officials to attend next week's annual conference. Board officials here confirmed that ICC chief executive Dave Richards has written to his Lankan board counterpart Dhammika Ranatunga asking him to obtain a directive from the court about who should represent Sri Lanka in the ICC conference beginning in England on June 23.

Mama mia, Vieri

Sydney: Christian Vieri, the world's most expensive footballer, says he is savouring the dream life but all his money goes to his mum.``The money I make, I give it all to my mother,'' he said. ``I don't even know where it goes.'' Earlier this month he completed a 50 million US dollar move from Lazio to Inter Milan, sparking a hostile response by Vatican's daily newspaper which described it ``an offence against poorpeople.''.Vieri, 25, who spent 10 years of his childhood in Sydney and is rediscovering old haunts here, shrugs off the controversy, saying, ``you have to show people you are worth it."