Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday extended the deadline of singing the player contract for the national cricketers to June 6 following a discussion between the two parties.
According to reliable sources, only four senior players are in disagreement and they are convincing the other players to remain from signing the contracts until they come to a compromise.
It is learnt that these players are requesting for a further hype in their payments than what is set out by the Cricket Committee.
Moreover, the players will have two options to choose either to agree to the scheme stipulated or to get into a scheme based on the experience and performance of the players, which has no burden on the player’s selection process.
“We have offered a pretty decent scheme for the players including the seniors. We can see some senior players holding back the juniors to demand a higher payment than what we offered.”
“Anyway, they have been given a time until June 6 to finalise and to come out with their decision either to agree for the present scheme or to play for the other option which will be based on tour by tour,” a senior official told the Daily News yesterday.
