SL players not paid for several months??

story on radio in melbourne suggests SL players are somewhat miffed that they have received no pay since feb...any news on this os?

I guess the Sri Lankan Cricket Board is waiting for the cheque from the BCCI to arrive in the mail?

pity the unlucky SL players who were also engaged by one of the more slowly paying IPL franchises

Henry wrote:I guess the Sri Lankan Cricket Board is waiting for the cheque from the BCCI to arrive in the mail?

Is that the same BCCI that still hadn't paid all its bills from the 1996 World Cup when the 2007 one was getting underway?

Is Arjuna losing weight now he's in cricket administration?

The Lankans are having atiff over non-rpayment of dues. Recently Lankan Board had taken a bank overdraft to meet expenses and are now expecting Rs 10 crores in income after India tours and just paid the over draft back after getting broadcasting advance payment from TV networks.

Another bone of contention is the next years's tour to England which clashes with IPL. Since ICC members have agreed that international fixtures will be more important over national, club level or domestic events, Lankan players will be required to skip IPL and this will impact at least 10 players who will be still short of a million bucks with 50% increased workload once maximum payment with bonuses is given to them. The ICC meeting next will see sparks fly with ECB and BCCI expected to start a new war over IPL.

I wonder how ECB will rein in their own players in a mood to rebel to play IPL next year if they are equired to play Sri Lanka at that time.

looks like SL cannot afford to go ahead with the tour of pomgolia

Has the BBCI not paid them off recently?

the bookies must have been cleaned out

maybe arjuna ate the prceeds?

Why should BCCI pay them? BCCI can only pay them for visiting on tours not covered by ICC FTP on reciprocal basis.

Whooooooooooooooosh

Vikas

Are you Parthiv Patel?

No I am not MB. But that said the sarcasm about BCCI is reaching intolerable levels. Reading people cribbing or taking pokes at BCCI's money power is getting tedious, borin and also a tad unfair. People either should live with it or do something about it. Surely there is more to forumming than how much loaded and corrupt BCCI is. Yes it is pathetic, but the sarcasm over it is reaching massive sooking levels.

The SL vote when the ICC vote to open the IPL window must be worth several million to SL.

Still - it's a sad state of affairs when the players don't get paid by their own board. Rebel tours and early retirements can't be far away. And all the while the ICC is paying that farking corrupt prick in charge of Zimbabwe cricket because they are "full members".

JGK wrote:The SL vote when the ICC vote to open the IPL window must be worth several million to SL.

Still - it's a sad state of affairs when the players don't get paid by their own board. Rebel tours and early retirements can't be far away. And all the while the ICC is paying that farking corrupt prick in charge of Zimbabwe cricket because they are "full members".

And who was it that didn't want Zim banned again?

JGK wrote:The SL vote when the ICC vote to open the IPL window must be worth several million to SL India.

Still - it's a sad state of affairs when the players don't get paid by their own board. Rebel tours and early retirements can't be far away. And all the while the ICC is paying that farking corrupt prick in charge of Zimbabwe cricket because they are "full members".

Sorry - now reads as I meant it.

Batman wrote:No I am not MB. But that said the sarcasm about BCCI is reaching intolerable levels. Reading people cribbing or taking pokes at BCCI's money power is getting tedious, borin and also a tad unfair. People either should live with it or do something about it. Surely there is more to forumming than how much loaded and corrupt BCCI is. Yes it is pathetic, but the sarcasm over it is reaching massive sooking levels.

Sook.

Ban India

Batman wrote:No I am not MB. But that said the sarcasm about BCCI is reaching intolerable levels. Reading people cribbing or taking pokes at BCCI's money power is getting tedious, borin and also a tad unfair. People either should live with it or do something about it. Surely there is more to forumming than how much loaded and corrupt BCCI is. Yes it is pathetic, but the sarcasm over it is reaching massive sooking levels.

Um, which board said they'd give 'financial assistance' to Sri Lanka to help them through some tough times, and is now seemingly reneging on the deal, meaning Sri Lankan players aren't getting paid?

Zat wrote:

Batman wrote:No I am not MB. But that said the sarcasm about BCCI is reaching intolerable levels. Reading people cribbing or taking pokes at BCCI's money power is getting tedious, borin and also a tad unfair. People either should live with it or do something about it. Surely there is more to forumming than how much loaded and corrupt BCCI is. Yes it is pathetic, but the sarcasm over it is reaching massive sooking levels.

Um, which board said they'd give 'financial assistance' to Sri Lanka to help them through some tough times, and is now seemingly reneging on the deal, meaning Sri Lankan players aren't getting paid?

BCCI has already loaned some money to the Lankan board. I don't think even they could be expected to run the whole Lankan board costs now could they? Lankan board's corruption has seen them recieve money from ICC tournaments [WC2006, CT2006, WCT20 etc.], loans from BCCI and yet they needed to have a bank overdraft of a sum of 6 million to pay the players in the past. Then who is to blame for it? The BCCI? I don't know how much money BCCI has loaned but that said, the fact that the Lankan board has a begging bowl out shows the problem is not BCCI but Cricket Sri Lanka itself.

Oh dear. Is it nice in cloud-cuckoo-land?

Zat wrote:Oh dear. Is it nice in cloud-cuckoo-land?

Yes, only people from Cuckooland would believe that the Lankan board is poor and unable to pay player salaries because only BCCI can loan them the money to do so. Definately. BCCI must be blamed for Lankan board corruption and mess as well, right?

lankan board is prolly broke due to its lavish spending on over the top corporate lunches...as i understand it, only fat arjuna attands these.

Even the PCB are showing more balls over this than the SL board.