They are Navin Dissanayake, Harin Fernando and S.B. Nawinna.

According to sports critics, all past appointees as sports minister had no real understanding about sports.

The only person who had done something to uplift sports was S.B. Dissanayake, but his focus was on athletics only, they say.

There is a big tussle to be the sports minister as it is a position that regularly comes under media limelight.