Sri Lanka gamers refuse to signal annual central contract

The Sri Lanka nationwide crew gamers have refused to signal the annual central contract, alleging an absence of transparency from the cricket board.
The resolution wasn’t stunning as nearly all of the senior gamers in unison, had made it clear that the contracts provided by the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) weren’t to their liking and in addition excluded some deserving performers.
The gamers in a collective assertion mentioned that they’ve “decided not to sign the tour contract for the forthcoming tour of England and neither will they enter into any future contracts for tours”.
The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had introduced that 24 of the main gamers had been provided contracts underneath 4 classes they usually had been given a deadline till June 3 to signal on dotted strains.
The annual retainership ranged between USD 70,000 to 100,000. Star batsman, Dhananjaya de Silva was set to be the best paid at USD 100,000.
At the peak of the dispute and negotiations final month the gamers mentioned remuneration proposed to gamers had been greater than 3 fold decrease than funds made to gamers of different counties in keeping with data obtained from the Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA).
Sri Lanka is predicted to tour England from June 18 to July 4, the place they’ll play three ODIs and an equal variety of T20 Internationals.
However, the gamers have additionally clarified that at no level would they ever refuse to play for the nation even after they haven’t signed the contract and SLC refuses to pay them their salaries.
The senior gamers had been additionally not joyful as public disclosure of their central contract quantities by SLC turned a “grave security concern to each and every player”.
Players claimed that the SLC resolution had affected their self-confidence and peace of thoughts.
The chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) Aravinda de Silva defended the brand new performance-linked pay system.
He mentioned that SLC was pressured to take a “harsh decision based on the past performances of the players as Sri Lanka’s international ranking in all 3 formats had nose-dived.”