Image by abhip via FlickrFinally, the contract dispute which grew to the extent of disrupting India's tour of Sri Lanka, has been settled. According to the SLCA (Sri Lanka Cricketers Association) Secretary, the players are set to sign the contracts next week.
Interestingly, the dispute occurred not over the salaries. Considering the pathetic financial state of the Sri Lanka Cricket (board) the seniors had agreed to renew their contracts without a rise in their salaries.However, the senior's insisted that the junior players should receive at least a 15 % pay rise.
As they were in debt, the Sri Lanka Cricket had initially disagreed on salary rise for the juniors. Now that the Indian cricket tour had wiped away their debts, they have agreed to increasing the junior cricketers salary.Despite this, Sri Lanka's top drawer cricketers are still some of the lowest paid international cricketers.
The other contractual road blocks like ban on contributing to the media (subject to SLC guidelines), ban on allowing players wife's or girlfriends' on tour and a penalty of half their match fee for losing a match were also withdrawn.
The players have also agreed to pay 75% of the domestic competition, which is interesting as their availability is dependent on the International fixtures which is again under the control of SLC.
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5 comments:
i really don't understand why every board has a contract issue with their respective players.
the players are the ones who make money for their respective boards.
this is like the working person of a house asking others in the family for allowances.
"a penalty of half their match fee for losing a match were also withdrawn"
does any other country have/attempt a similar clause? I find that the oddest one.
APD,
Your analogy is quiet striking.
The Cricket boards are the middlemen. They want to deny the laborers(cricketers) fair wages. Thus the inevitability of dispute over contracts. :)
RS,
I have no idea, whether such a clause exists in other contracts.
Zimbabwe is a possibility. :)
i too not understand this contract issue........
Whatever is it is correct......
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