Sri Lanka’s elite cricketers refuse to signal new contracts after board makes hefty pay cuts

Sri Lanka’s main cricketers led by Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne together with a number of senior gamers, together with Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews have refused to signal the central contracts that see their funds slashed by as much as 40 p.c, a lawyer representing them stated.If the dispute is just not 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 are anticipated to fill the coffers with a cash-strapped cricket board of the island nation.An announcement from the legal professional representing virtually all prime gamers together with the Test skipper Karunaratne, Mathews, Chandimal and others stated remuneration proposed to gamers are one-third in comparison with another cricket taking part in nations as per the Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA) report.The SLC this week stated 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.In the classes launched solely six gamers are in class A and their annual pay ranges between USD 70,000 to 100,000. Batsman Dhananjaya de Silva attracts the best – 100,000 with the remainder of them have been to obtain 70-80,000 US {dollars}.Just for comparative evaluation, India”s group C (the bottom class) centrally contracted gamers yearly earn a retainer ship price of Rs 1 crore (USD 137,000).The Sri Lankan gamers stated in a joint assertion that they have been “shocked and dismayed” by SLC”s choice to go public with particular fee 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 acknowledged.The chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of the SLC Aravinda de Silva instructed reporters that they have been compelled to make harsh selections primarily based on the previous performances of the gamers.”We wanted to have a key performance indicator for the players so that we could evaluate them,” De Silva stated including that the brand new pay scheme was an incentive-based contract,The gamers nonetheless refused to take the complete blame for Sri Lanka’s shoddy performances over time.They keep the directors and the native construction have been contributory components to Sri Lanka’s decline in worldwide rankings. (INPUTS FROM PTI)