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 provided by the board which they imagine is way much less in comparison with different nations.
If the dispute will not be sorted in the end of time, it may effectively have an effect on Sri Lanka’s bilateral sequence with India in July, the place six white ball matches is anticipated to fill the coffers of a cash-strapped cricket board of the island nation.
An announcement from the legal professional representing nearly all high gamers together with the Test skipper Karunaratne, Mathews, Chandimal and others mentioned remuneration proposed to gamers are one third in comparison with another cricket enjoying nations as per Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA) report.
The SLC this week mentioned that 24 of the main gamers had been provided contracts below 4 classes they usually had been given a deadline till June 3 to signal on dotted strains.
In the classes launched solely 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 – 100,000 with the remainder of them have been to obtain 70-80,000 US {dollars}.
Just for comparative evaluation, India’s group C (lowest class) centrally contracted gamers yearly earn a retainership payment of Rs 1 crore (USD 137,000).
The Sri Lankan gamers mentioned in a joint assertion that they have been “shocked and dismayed” by SLC’s resolution to go public with particular cost particulars of gamers.
They really feel that public disclosure has affected their peace of thoughts.
“These disclosures amount to a grave security concern to each and every player,” it said.
The chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of the SLC Aravinda de Silva advised reporters that they have been compelled to make harsh resolution based mostly on the previous performances of the gamers.
“We wanted to have a key performance indicators for the players so that we could evaluate them,” De Silva mentioned including that the brand new pay scheme was an incentive based mostly contract,
The gamers nevertheless refused to take your entire blame for Sri Lanka’s shoddy performances over time.
They keep the directors and the .native construction have been contributory elements to Sri Lanka’s decline in worldwide rankings.
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Sri Lanka’s high cricketers locked in bitter pay dispute with nation’s board