ICC pays 45% dues of Lankan cricketers

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COLOMBO: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has paid 45 per cent of delayed salaries of Sri Lankan cricketers, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed that the ICC paid US$2million, a part of the due 25 per cent of the country’s participation fee for the last World Cup, Xinhua reported.

U.R. Senaviratna, the secretary of the Sports Ministry said that the ICC paid part of cricketers salary directly to their accounts without going through the SLC.

“The payment of US$2 million made by the ICC was due to be paid to SLC for hosting some matches of the last World Cup,” Senaviratna told Xinhua.

SLC has assisted the ICC payment by providing bank account details of each player and the relevant amounts owed to them. Instead of allowing the island’s crisis-ridden cricket administration to pay the cricketers, the ICC chose to pay the cricketers directly.

The cricketers and staff were left without wages for nine months as a result of an unprecedented financial crisis following co-hosting the World Cup earlier this year. SLC ran into financial crisis after running up debts of US$32.5 million to finance the building of two international stadia and to renovate a stadium in Colombo, for the mega event. (Source: Indo-Asian News Service)

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slfan99 Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:27 AM

I wonder what the Sports Minster has to say about this.

slfan99 Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:28 AM

Good that ICC made a direct payment to the cricketers. Otherwise a part of might have ended up in someone's pocket.

Sinhala Kolla Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:07 AM

wonder of Asia........ No Wonder why ICC pay direct in to the players accounts/

Aristotle Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:57 AM

Lovely, the payment to cricketers where made directly to their accounts. This show the confidence ICC has in SLC.

Shane Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:00 AM

"the ICC chose to pay the cricketers directly" what a shame on Sri Lanka!!!

Hit Wicket Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:06 AM

Christmas, huh!!?. We have vegetables!!.

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