Lanka board says SLPL has official status

Surprised by the BCCIs sudden refusal to allow Indian players participation in the Sri Lanka Premier League.

Surprised by the BCCIs sudden refusal to allow Indian players participation in the Sri Lanka Premier League(SLPL),the island nations cricket board on Sunday rejected the claim that the event is being organised by a private party.

The BCCI has refused to issue No Objection Certificates to the 12 Indian players,who wanted to participate in the SLPL,saying that the event is being organised by a private party on behalf of SLC.

This tournament is approved by SLC. And Somerset are the marketing arm,having won the rights through a tender process. Nobody can say it is owned by Somerset, its secretary Nishantha Ranatunga said. We need to explain the matter to the BCCI and whatever the concerns that they have,we need to give them an explanation. It is very important to have them (Indian players) as they add a lot of value and glamour to the tournament, he added.

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The SLPL will be played between July 19 and August 4 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Several foreign players including Chris Gayle,Kieron Pollard,Shahid Afridi,Daniel Vettori,Kevin OBrien and Herschelle Gibbs have already been signed for the tournament.

The Indian players who wanted to participate are Praveen Kumar,Munaf Patel,Irfan Pathan,Dinesh Karthik,R Ashwin,Ravindra Jadeja,Manoj Tiwary,Saurabh Tiwary,Umesh Yadav,Vinay Kumar,Manish Pandey and Paul Valthaty.

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