Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket And its cricketers are heading for yet another showdown with players being offered only 36 hours from Tuesday to sign controversial national contracts.
SLC Sources said the players are returning from the UK on Tuesday and will be given a July 8 deadline to sign the contract. Anyone failing to do so will be ruled out of selection for the home series against India starting July 13.
The two sides announced a temporary truce with the players agreeing to sign a touring contract to go on the tour of England last month.
The disastrous tour ended with defeats in both formats and was mired in contention with three key players being sent back for breaching the bio bubble.
Meanwhile, the desperate selectors have decided to bring back the left-hander. Bhanuka Rajapaksa He was fined USD 5000 for joining the team and a two-year suspended ban for breach of contract terms.
Rajapaksa was highly critical of the management’s fitness requirement system for players.
Ahead of the England tour, the players breached the June 3 deadline for signing contracts, citing lack of transparency in the process.
Defying the deadline, the players said that they were ready to play for the country at all times, even if the administration had decided not to pay salaries because of their refusal to enter into contracts.
At the peak of controversy and negotiations during May, players said the remuneration offered to players was three times less than what was paid to players from other counties, according to information received from the Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA).
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had by then announced that 24 key players had been offered contracts under the 4 categories and had been given a deadline of 3 June to sign them.
Of the released categories, only six players are in category A and their annual salary ranges from USD 70,000 to USD 100,000. batsman, Dhananjaya de Silva Attracted the highest – with the rest of them getting USD 70-80,000.
Players objected to SLC’s decision to make public payment details of players.
He claimed that the SLC’s decision to make the players’ salary details public has affected their confidence and peace of mind.
SLC Sources said the players are returning from the UK on Tuesday and will be given a July 8 deadline to sign the contract. Anyone failing to do so will be ruled out of selection for the home series against India starting July 13.
The two sides announced a temporary truce with the players agreeing to sign a touring contract to go on the tour of England last month.
The disastrous tour ended with defeats in both formats and was mired in contention with three key players being sent back for breaching the bio bubble.
Meanwhile, the desperate selectors have decided to bring back the left-hander. Bhanuka Rajapaksa He was fined USD 5000 for joining the team and a two-year suspended ban for breach of contract terms.
Rajapaksa was highly critical of the management’s fitness requirement system for players.
Ahead of the England tour, the players breached the June 3 deadline for signing contracts, citing lack of transparency in the process.
Defying the deadline, the players said that they were ready to play for the country at all times, even if the administration had decided not to pay salaries because of their refusal to enter into contracts.
At the peak of controversy and negotiations during May, players said the remuneration offered to players was three times less than what was paid to players from other counties, according to information received from the Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA).
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had by then announced that 24 key players had been offered contracts under the 4 categories and had been given a deadline of 3 June to sign them.
Of the released categories, only six players are in category A and their annual salary ranges from USD 70,000 to USD 100,000. batsman, Dhananjaya de Silva Attracted the highest – with the rest of them getting USD 70-80,000.
Players objected to SLC’s decision to make public payment details of players.
He claimed that the SLC’s decision to make the players’ salary details public has affected their confidence and peace of mind.
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