The long-running dispute between Sri Lanka Cricket and its cricketers over nationwide contracts took a brand new activate Wednesday with senior participant Angelo Mathews hinting at retirement after not being provided a contract.
The improvement comes forward of the limited-overs residence sequence in opposition to India beginning on July 13.
Mathews, the senior-most within the present crop of gamers, and Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne discovered themselves out of the contracts introduced on Wednesday morning.
An sad Mathews has reportedly written to the SLC administration that he’s considering retirement. He is anticipated to make a proper announcement of his intentions in a couple of days.
An SLC supply stated that what SLC did on Wednesday was to supply contracts on a per tour foundation. He stated that there could be no annual contract as there was an pressing must signal gamers for the sequence in opposition to India.
The supply stated gamers who had beforehand refused to signal contracts signed them after being given a July 8 deadline on Wednesday.
Under SLC’s efficiency primarily based wage scheme, 24 key gamers had been provided contracts beneath 4 classes.
Of the launched classes, solely six gamers had been in class A and their annual wage ranged from USD 70,000 to USD 100,000.
The gamers felt that the scheme lacked transparency and the proposed pay could be a lot lower than the Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA) permitted pay scales.
The gamers went to England for a restricted overs tour with out signing a nationwide contract.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
