Sri Lanka players sign new contracts to end dispute

Eighteen Sri Lanka cricketers have signed new national team contracts until the end of the year, ending a player-board dispute, the country's cricket board said on Friday.

Published : Aug 20, 2021 17:14 IST , COLOMBO

Eighteen Sri Lanka cricketers have signed new national team contracts until the end of the year.
Eighteen Sri Lanka cricketers have signed new national team contracts until the end of the year.
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Eighteen Sri Lanka cricketers have signed new national team contracts until the end of the year.

Eighteen Sri Lanka cricketers have signed new national team contracts until the end of the year, ending a player-board dispute, the country's cricket board said on Friday.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) rolled out new contracts in May, offering lower base salaries and more performance-based incentives, which the players rejected, calling them "unfair and non-transparent".

However, they went ahead with tours of Bangladesh and England and also played a home series against India while the dispute lingered.

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"The players signed the contracts without any deviation from the contracts offered previously..." the SLC said in a statement.

Ex-skipper Angelo Mathews is taking an indefinite break from national duty, while Danushka Gunathilaka, Niroshan Dickwella and Kusal Mendis are serving one-year bans from international cricket for breaching bio-bubble protocols during the England tour.

Sri Lanka will host three one-dayers and three Twenty20 matches against South Africa next month.

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