COLOMBO: Sri Lanka stars Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene are facing disciplinary action for their public criticism of board officials in a dispute over their retirement from T20 Internationals.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said in a statement on Tuesday that it decided to refer the ‘unsubstantiated statements’ of the players to the disciplinary committee ‘for their views and recommendations’.

Sangakkara and Jayawardene, on their return home from the World Twenty20 triumph in Bangladesh this month, hit out at board officials who criticised them for announcing their retirement from the shortest format of the game to the media before discussing it with officials.

At a news conference arranged at the airport to welcome the team, the two stalwarts said they were only responding to media queries when they said the tournament was their last World T20 and they never mentioned retirement.