“The Committee has been very fair to them by infusing additional benefits than before, which is on a performance-based scheme, de Silva told the Daily News yesterday.
“We discussed this matter in depth before we presented it to the players. Unlike in the past, we have increased the benefits three-fold (300%) than what it was but purely on the team’s performance.”
“It has to be a collective effort by the whole team. If they win a Test series, we pay them US $ 150,000 which was earlier limited to US $ 50,000.”
“Winning a limited overs series we have offered them US $75,000, which was earlier limited to US $25,000,” de Silva explained.
“We also introduced a slab for the T20 format, which also runs up to a maximum of US $ 50,000, which earlier didn't have any rewards at all.”
“Therefore, it is very unfair that our players say that they are not agreeable to this scheme,” de Silva emphasised.
“The most important fact is that they should get into the middle and play positive cricket and start winning games for the country rather than complaining.”
“This positive approach will encourage us to consider offering them more benefits, like some of the other countries in our region,” he added.
The Cricket Committee headed by de Silva put out a scheme containing various slabs based on player performance recently with wicket-keeper batsman Niroshan Dickwella and Dhananjaya de Silva heading the list.
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