Contract dispute rocks Sri Lanka Team
While all eyes are focused upon the upcoming Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) elections, a major contract crisis is threatening to destroy the Sri Lanka cricket team ahead of the home series against Bangladesh that will start tomorrow with a three-day warm-up game at Matara.
The SLC contract with top players including the national players expired on Thursday and SLC has set today as the deadline for the players to sign their new contracts for 2013-14.
However, even by yesterday, none of the 60 players who had been offered contracts had signed it and it appeared last evening as if none of the top 60 Sri Lankan players will be available for the Bangladesh series.
“The Ex-Co has given March 2 as the deadline for the players to sign the contracts. We can only select players who have contracts with SLC. If the players who had been offered contracts refuse to sign it on time, then we will have to take a serious decision.
We might be forced to select some other players for the Bangladesh tour,” said SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga.
It is unlikely that the players would be able to sign the contract before today’s deadline expires and there is a very real probability that none of those 60 players would be picked to represent Sri Lanka for Bangladesh’s tour.
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