BartaBangla Desk :: Sri Lanka’s cricket authorities were to decide later Wednesday whether to scrap their Twenty20 league after all franchise holders defaulted on payments for the tournament, officials said.Sri Lanka’s cricket authorities were to decide later Wednesday whether to scrap their Twenty20 league after all franchise holders defaulted
A meeting of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials was underway in Colombo over the future of the tournament, which is scheduled to start next month.
Officials said all seven franchises for the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) were held by Indian companies. But they had failed to meet several deadlines to pay nearly three million dollars.
SLC officials will decide “if they should cancel the SLPL altogether or cancel this year’s tournament and continue from 2014″, its spokesman Rajith Fernando told AFP.
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