After huge success of Indian
premier league and Bangladesh
premier league the neighboring countries of India
and Bangladesh Sri Lanka
The SLPL was supposed to kick off last year,
with SLC's then interim committee signing a five-year deal with Somerset Entertainment
Ventures to organise the event. However, the Sri Lankan board was forced to postpone
the tournament after the BCCI refused to allow its players to participate
at the last minute, causing a delay in the naming of the final composition of
the teams and affecting overall preparations for the event. In addition, the
interim committee that signed the deal was subsequently replaced and there was
criticism of some of the clauses in the contract by the parliamentary Committee
on Public Enterprises (COPE).
A new set of administrators
were elected in January and they have been negotiating with Somerset
Entertainment Ventures to resolve their differences. The new deal has addressed
the concerns rose by the COPE report and has been cleared by the office of the
Sri Lankan attorney general, ESPNcricinfo understands.
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| Proposed Teams of SLPL last Year |
The format of the tournament
remains the same. SLPL will have seven teams that will play each other in a
league format followed by semi-finals and finals. The games will most likely be
played in Colombo and Kandy
In order to assuage the
Indian board, SLC was willing to back the Indian players' contracts so that
their financial interests were protected, but that was not enough to satisfy
the BCCI. There were also suggestions that former IPL chairman Lalit Modi had a
hand in the event, but SLC and Somerset Entertainment Ventures repeatedly
denied them, as did Modi.
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