Common sense at long last! Most important that this plan doesn’t get thrown out the moment a new bunch of clowns take over within a year! Just need some continuity of strategy to make it work and lets hope this is the start.

I think the correct story is only bad boy planning to leave other 2 fellows not going anywhere they are still young can come back early next year, bad boy going could be blessings in
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These are long term moves. They are migrating. SLC suspension is short term.

Why will they not pay the fines?

Best of luck to them! More will leave soon if SLC mess around with contracts. West Indies cricket board learned it the hard way that they can’t treat grown men like school children and learned the hard way that a good pay package is needed to keep their best athletes playing for them.

I wonder how these players can take part in the USA league related matches during their ban period of one year as these games planned in this USA league will definitely fall under ICC approved match calender/schedule. Appreciate if someone can advise on this issue.

If the three players are trying to leave the country without paying the 3 million LKR imposed on them, they will definitely run the risk of another issue that will stop them from leaving the country as SLC can do that through holding their passports.

100% agree with Sa’adi. Only very few cricket commentators these days who have the courage to talk straight. Bulk of them do not want to upset technical committee or the board.
We expected lot from this technical committee but they have failed so far. The new contracts with KPI’s appear to be having some faults. No point of having KPI’s if you cannot measure them in a transparent manner. Once cricketers pointed it out that to the board and the technical committee they got angry. Now they are all out to take revenge from senior cricketers. Even our great Murali’s reaction was very poor.
It is good to give more opportunity to young talented cricketers. But we need a good short, medium and long terms plans with seniors also in the mix.
We also need a chief selector who is capable of earning respect from from all the cricketers. Of course he cannot make everybody happy but with clear policies and transparent action he can earn respect from everybody. ( such as Mahanama )

Let’s be clear here… Thawfeeq just compared some of the greatest Cricketers in the World History of Cricket (Sanga, Murali, Mahela, De Silva) to the likes of Udana, TP, and Tharanga in terms of having fair player contracts to reflect the assets they are to the country? Is this a joke? Assets appreciate over time. For example, Sanga retired with a Test Batting average over 57, ODI batting average over 40, etc., by the time he retired. I don’t need to state the statistics of the more recently retired players mentioned above because they are pedestrian to say the least. How they managed to continue to playing for Sri Lanka till their mid-30s is the real question. Have we truly forgotten our cricketing achievements of the past we are calling the most medicore of players now assets? If these medicore players want to retire and go play in meaningless T20 leagues here and there let them – not a loss. That’s probably a fairer reflection of their ‘asset’ worthiness than what they are to

Most SL journalists are idiots. Sa’adi has brains. Rex wants harsher punishments for players who broke the bio bubble. Rex wanted Malinga to be taught a lesson too when Mailinga had an issue with the board. These idiots must be thinking there are international quality cricketers under every coconut tree because they are chasing away many players. I can’t believe we went into several world cups without Upul Tharanga who is one of the greatest ODI batsmen in our history. He has 15 ODI centuries and had at least 10 more ODI tons under his belt but his career was mismanaged by idiotic selectors like Sanath Jayasuriya and others. Angelo and Dimuth are now facing same calamity. These guys are in their prime years and have the ability to score big, match winning hundreds.

Saadi is right. Most Sri Lankans will not agree. Aravinda and his technical committee are causing a bigger mess not fixing anything.

Mickey is spineless and will do as he is told so no hope there.

Namal will appoint committees filled with people whom the public adore because Namal is a populist politician and that’s what they do.

Right before a World Cup they are experimenting with the side. More competent management would be using this precious time get their World Cup top order batsmen into form by playing them consistently. Not us. Even in 2014 they selected Chandimal (a guy who wasn’t even in the T20 team) to be captain of 2014 T20 World Cup side and later they had to drop him in the middle of the World Cup! Our problems have existed even before 2015 because the political stooges at SLC are not there because they have the skills and ability to manage a national sports body. The worst is yet to come. The decline is far from over and cannot be reversed by Aravinda’s c