SLC Contract dispute: 23 players locked out

[ganeshran]

Sri Lanka Cricket has frozen out 23 of its top players after a meeting on Saturday could not break the contract deadlock between the board and the nation's best cricketers. SLC has told its selectors not to consider those cricketers for any international cricket, including the Bangladesh series that begins on Friday, until the players agree to their new contract terms. Players' contracts expired on February 28, and all 60 players who were offered new contracts have refused to sign them before the March 2 deadline prescribed by the board. "We spoke to all of the players present at the meeting, and gave our viewpoints and they also gave their points," SLC president Upali Dharmadasa said. "We have said, 'Nothing doing. We're going to stick to our guns.' It ended like that." "They will not be getting any facilities that Sri Lanka Cricket has been offering them, including, physios, masseurs and coaches. They can't come for practice at our venues. New Test captain Angelo Mathews and Twenty20 captain Dinesh Chandimal are among the players frozen out, along with the bulk of Sri Lanka's Test and ODI players. Mathews and Chandimal were appointed captains just over two weeks ago, and are yet to play any matches in their new capacity. Dharmadasa would not rule out the possibility of Sri Lanka's top cricketers playing in the first Test against Bangladesh in Galle, but only if the players signed their contracts by then. Kumar Sangakkara is the only player immediately effected by the lockout, as he will not be playing in the three-day tour match against Bangladesh in Matara, which begins on Sunday, as originally planned. The match was supposed to be Sangakkara's return to competitive cricket since fracturing his index finger in the Boxing Day Test. The major point of dispute in the new contracts is SLC's refusal to pay the players 25% of the board's earnings from ICC events, which they have done since 2003. This payment was made to players because their images are used by the ICC to promote the tournament, as well as by the ICC's sponsors, for the duration of the event. Other points of contention include the board's move to freeze payment to cricketers taking part in the IPL for as long as he is with his IPL team, a clause tying pay to team performance, and the scrapping of a perk that allowed players' wives to travel on one tour a year on SLC's money.

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[carnish]

Hopefully Sanga and Mahela retire from tests in protest

[Magneto]

[G_B_]

the players should call the SLC's bluff and retire Some nerve by the slc to ban the players if they dont sign central contracts. that after not paying them for months. with the lankan players on this

[Pagalpanti]

Hopefully Sanga and Mahela retire from tests in protest

They would want to play a few tests in SSC before they retire.. After all they had tough time last year getting spanked in away tours. :giggle:

[Junyfan]

sanga and mahela are true legends,from subcontinent they are the most stylish duo of last decade

[Square Drive]

BCCI

[SLICKR392]

:fail: Sanga chickened out from the Aussie tour to save his average and is back against Bangbros. :giggle:

[Mahaa Raavana]

:fail: Sanga chickened out from the Aussie tour to save his average and is back against Bangbros. :giggle:

:asleep: Hope this stupid dispute doesn't last long...

[thongale]

:fail: Sanga chickened out from the Aussie tour to save his average and is back against Bangbros. :giggle:

can't help but a facepalm.

[Sidhoni]

[ganeshran]

The clause to freeze payment of players who get paid in IPL is absurd. Is this SLC's defintiion of cost cutting after handing out the TV rights to the president's son at throwaway prices?

[Mahaa Raavana]

It's over...:yay::yay: Sanaa breaks the deadlock..:--D Take that BCCI !!....Your diabolical plan of destroying SL cricket fails once again..

[Crookbond]

It's over...:yay::yay: Sanaa breaks the deadlock..:--D Take that BCCI !!....Your diabolical plan of destroying SL cricket fails once again..

[G_B_]

what the hell has the bcci got to do with anything?

[game_changerr]

It's over...:yay::yay: Sanaa breaks the deadlock..:--D Take that BCCI !!....Your diabolical plan of destroying SL cricket fails once again..

kaanspiracy theoryy,,,,,green bug has bitten you also:cantstop:

[ganeshran]

Sir John must be relieved

[Clarke]

Damn, it would have been fun to watch Bang vs SL B side as a full fledged series

[Crookbond]

If the original contracts are signed on Monday, Sri Lanka's cricketers will not have gained anything from the standoff which lasted little over 24 hours, largely owing to SLC's powerful bargaining position. In the weeks before the contracts were issued, SLC announced it will not recognise player managers, and has since extended that policy to players' associations, who were not allowed to represent the players' interests during the contract negotiations. In addition to doing away with player payments from ICC's guarantee fee, the new contracts also allows the SLC not to pay a player's regular salary for as long as he is with his IPL team. A convention that allowed players' wives to travel business class on one tour a year was also scrapped, and a clause that tied payment to performance as per the ICC rankings, introduced.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/current/story/623329.html Huh! Why should SLC's payment to SL cricketers depend on their association with an IPL team? This is clearly another move by the corrupt SLC to stash more money into their pockets by using IPL as a reason.

[Square Drive]

Yup failed attempt this time.. but we have to be careful now.