Sri Lanka cricketers have threatened their board they’ll retire prematurely after the introduction of a brand new points-based grading system which in flip will determine their annual paychecks. The gamers have demanded extra transparency from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as to how they’re being graded as the brand new system will considerably affect their earnings.
As per the brand new system, gamers will now be classes into 4 totally different teams primarily based on factors which provides precedence to ranges of health, self-discipline, efficiency in worldwide and home cricket over the last two years, management and total worth to the group, experiences The Sunday Times.
However, Ashley de Silva, half of Sri Lanka Cricket Management Committee appointed by the Minister of Sports, mentioned the contracts have been finalised after making amendments which they gamers requested for.
“The contracts have been finalised,” De Silva advised Daily FT. “The players have appointed a lawyer and they wanted certain amendments to be done in the agreement which our lawyers have done. Now we are in the process of sharing it with the senior players. So far nobody has said that they are not going to sign it.”
“The current team to Bangladesh has gone on a tour agreement and they have been given the new agreement to go through and if anybody wanted to sign it they could. I haven’t got the feedback from the manager because they took off yesterday morning,” he added.
While the annual retainership has been diminished, a brand new performance-based bonus system has been launched by SLC. A collection victory over top-ranked Test group will lead to a bonus of USD 1,50,000.
Similarly beating the top-ranked ODI group in a collection will give them a bonus of USD 75,000 and for T20I, USD 50,000.
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