SLC Management Committee focuses on maintaining transparency

Newly appointed SLC Management Committee

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The newly appointed Management Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) held a media briefing yesterday (07th April) at SLC headquarters to reveal their plans for the development of cricket in Sri Lanka during a short six-week tenure.     

The Chairman of the Management committee Professor Arjun de Silva highlighted that their main focus is on the accounting and legal side of things and promised to maintain transparency in whatever they do during their short six-week tenure which will extend up until the SLC elections on May 20. 

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“There is only so much you can do in a six-week period but I have been given an excellent team with different skill-sets and the main thing would be, to the best of our ability, to try to streamline the accounts and the legal part and be more transparent. We want to open out things and we have no agenda; we will show it how it is,” Arjuna de Silva said. 

Speaking on the Sri Lanka national men’s team’s next assignment, the Bangladesh tour of Sri Lanka, de Silva mentioned that veteran batsman Angelo Mathews, who pulled out of the West Indies Tests due to personal reasons, will be available for the upcoming series while left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya will most likely miss it. 

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Aravinda de Silva the chairman of SLC’s Cricket Committee who attended the press briefing, mentioned that player contracts of national cricketers will be signed very soon. 

“We have almost finalized the contracts. I am sure the new committee will want to run through the contracts before they are signed and the players who have just returned will also have to do so as they may have their concerns.” Aravinda de Silva said. 

Aravinda de Silva also mentioned that they are planning to employ an arbitrator who will work as a mediator between the players and the board and evaluate the concerns of both parties. 

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“We thought it might be useful to have an arbitrator between the players and the cricket board – an independent person to sit and evaluate whatever concerns each party has on a contract for the future which I think is something we need to seriously look at so we let the players focus on their cricket and not have to worry about contracts in the midst of the cricket season,” he said.