Start successful video games relatively than complaining: Aravinda de Silva to Sri Lanka gamers

Former Sri Lanka captain and legendary batsman Aravinda de Silva has requested the nationwide group cricketers to “start winning games rather than complaining” as he defended the proposed annual gamers’ contracts ready by the committee underneath him.
De Silva mentioned the gamers’ rejection of the central contracts was “unfair”, as a result of the Board is providing extra for successful sequence towards top-ranked opposition.
“It could be very unfair that our gamers say that they don’t seem to be agreeable to this scheme. The most vital reality is they need to get into the center and play optimistic cricket and begin successful video games for the nation relatively than complaining.
“This positive approach will encourage us to consider offering them more benefits, like some of the other countries in our region,” de Silva was quoted as saying by ‘Daily News’.
Last week, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) mentioned that 24 of the main gamers had been supplied contracts underneath 4 classes and so they had been given a deadline till June 3 to signal on dotted strains.
Only six gamers are within the class A and their annual pay ranges between USD 70,000 to 100,000. Batsman Dhananjaya de Silva attracts highest — USD 100,000 with the remainder of them had been to obtain USD 70,000 to 80,000 US {dollars}.
Sri Lanka’s main cricketers led by Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne together with host of senior gamers, together with Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews have refused to signal the central contracts which they imagine is way much less in comparison with different international locations.
De Silva mentioned the Cricket Committee, which he heads, has been particularly reasonable to the gamers as the brand new system will infuse further advantages than earlier than as it’s a performance-based scheme.
“We mentioned this matter in depth earlier than we offered it to the gamers. Unlike prior to now, we’ve got elevated the advantages three-fold (300%) than what it was however purely on the group’s efficiency.
“It has to be a collective effort by the whole team. If they win a Test series, we pay them USD 150,000 which was earlier limited to USD 50,000,” mentioned the 55-year-old who scored 6361 runs from 93 Tests between 1984 and 2002.
Explaining additional, the previous fashionable batsman mentioned: “Winning a restricted overs sequence we’ve got supplied them USD 75,000, which was earlier restricted to USD 25,000.
“We also introduced a slab for the T20 format, which also runs up to a maximum of USD 50,000, which earlier didn’t have any rewards at all.”