{"id":82208,"date":"2021-06-08T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82208"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:01:48","slug":"sri-lanka-agree-to-england-tour-despite-contract-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82208","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka agree to England tour despite contract row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SL.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Colombo: Sri Lanka&#8217;s cricket board said on Tuesday its players have agreed to tour England, even though a contract dispute remains unresolved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The players, including test captain Dimuth Karunaratne and ODI skipper Kusal Perera, had refused to sign new contracts which offer lower base salaries and more performance-based incentives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team will go ahead with the tour. All the players are available,&#8221; a Sri Lanka Cricket spokesman told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The players will leave for England early on Wednesday, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The players had criticised the &#8220;unfair and non-transparent&#8221; contracts in a statement last month but continued with their tour of Bangladesh for a three-match one-day series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will play this tour without signing any contract,&#8221; players&#8217; representative Nishan Premathiratne told the ESPNcricinfo website ahead of the players&#8217; departure for London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have signed a voluntary declaration, but there&#8217;s nothing there about player remuneration. They have always been committed to playing for Sri Lanka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka will play three one-dayers and three Twenty20 Internationals in England. The limited-overs tour begins on June 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Colombo: Sri Lanka&#8217;s cricket board said on Tuesday its players have agreed to tour England, even though a contract dispute remains unresolved. The players, including <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82208\" title=\"Sri Lanka agree to England tour despite contract row\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82210,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82208\/revisions\/82210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}