In the wake of the deadly Coronavirus outbreak, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) has decided to provide financial help to all it’s member Clubs, Cricket Age reliably learns.
“In concern with the contemporary global infectious disease, the executive committee of Sri Lanka Cricket has made a resolution to support it’s member clubs (those who own grounds) and experience serious labour and financial problems too maintain their venues and cricket infrastructure facilities” a SLC letter, which is in Cricket Age possession dated April 20, reads.
Accordingly, SLC will provide a Grant of 1,00,000 each for the months of March and April as a relief measure to lessen the burden of the members to upkeep the standard of the venues and infrastructure facilities owned by it’s member clubs.
“We trust and look forward that this global calamity would go off from the earth in the shortest possible time frame” the letter, signed by SLC president Shammi Silva, reads further.
It is noteworthy that SLC is remained closed since March 14, when Country’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa had announced nationwide lockdown to control the spreading of the virus. Since then, Board employees, as per the government guideline, have been told to work from the home until further notice. Since then, the Sri Lanka government has extended nationwide curfew many times in past one month, in order to control the virus.
Earlier as well, SLC won millions of cricket fans heart by granting LKR 25 Million to country’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in government’s mountainous efforts to fight against the deadly virus. At the same time, SLC has also taken a courageous move of not slashing salaries of it’s employees, amidst a spree of salary cut decisions made by a number of companies in the country over the past two weeks.
Like any other country, International cricket has come to a halt in Sri Lanka as well. In March, the Lankans, led by Dimuth Karunaratne, were scheduled to lock horns with England in a Test series. But after how things panned out, the series in the World Test Championship (WTC) had to be shelved for the time being. Last week, SLC were forced to cancel another series – this time against South Africa, which was originally slated for month of June.
