COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s top cricketers headed by Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne and bunch of mature players, such as Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews have refused to register that the central contracts provided by the board that they think is much less when compared with other nations.
In the event the dispute isn’t piled in due course of time, then it may affect Sri Lanka’s bilateral string with India in July, in which six white ball suits is forecast to meet the coffers of some yearlong cricket board of this island state.
An announcement from the lawyer representing nearly all leading players such as the Evaluation skipper Karunaratne, Mathews, Chandimal and many others stated remuneration suggested that players are just one third in comparison to another cricket playing countries as per Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA) report.
Even the SLC this week stated 24 of the top players were offered contracts below 4 classes and they were extended a deadline before June 3 to register on dotted lines.
From the classes released just six players are from the class A and their yearly cover ranges between USD 70,000 to 100,000.
Batsman Dhananjaya p Silva attracts maximum – 100,000 with the remainder of these were to get 70-80,000 US dollars.
Only for comparative evaluation, India’s team C (lowest class ) professionally contracted players yearly make a retainership charge of Rs crore (USD 137,000).
Even the Sri Lankan players stated in a joint announcement they were”shocked and dismayed” from SLC’s determination to go public with particular payment information of gamers.
They believe that people disclosure has influenced their reassurance.
“All these disclosures amount into a grave safety issue for each and every participant,” it said.
Even the chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of this SLC Aravinda de Silva told me they had been made to create harsh decision depending on the previous performances of their players.
“We desired to have a crucial performance indicators for its players so we can evaluate them” De Silva said that the new paycheck has been a bonus based contract,
The players refused to take the whole blame for Sri Lanka’s Terrible performances through recent years.
They assert the administrators as well as the .local construction were contributory elements to Sri Lanka’s decrease in global rankings.
