‘Creating rift between players’: Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne reply to Muralitharan’s allegations

Sri Lanka’s senior cricketers Angelo Mathews and Dimuth Karunaratne have hit again at former cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan after he slammed some senior gamers from the present workforce for the continuing contract dispute between the gamers and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
In a letter written to Muralitharan, as reported by Island Cricket, Mathews and Karunaratne mentioned the continuing dispute isn’t solely associated to cash.
“It is unfair and untrue that you state that the issue in the contracts was purely money,” the letter learn. “We feel that you were not properly informed of the correct sequence of events, or was possibly given wrong information. Possibly by parties who wish to create a rift between the players and the administration and create disharmony,” it added.
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It additional mentioned, “You seemingly showed a great degree of dissatisfaction and hatred against the entire team and us, where we were referred to by name… continuously harping on failures of players could be quite detrimental to the players morale. Easily, such could have been done at meetings rather than on a Live TV program.”

While talking in an interview to Hiru TV final week, former off-spinner Muralitharan had held Matthews and Karunaratne as among the many prime suspects for the complete contract tussle. Murali had additionally mentioned the Sri Lankan workforce’s poor efficiency is as a result of disturbing workforce setting.