The Sri Lanka Premier
League (SLPL) is now the most talk of the topic in the cricket world. At last
Sri Lankan cricket board is going to start its own Twenty20-based cricket tournament
this year. It is scheduled to start from August 10-31.
It will host 24 matches
and all the matches will be played in Colombo and Pallekele. Foreign players will play alongside
Sri Lankan star players like Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne
Dilshan and Lasith Malinga for seven provincial franchise teams.
What can make the readers more
astonished is the way of distributing players among the seven teams. There was
no players’ auction like the IPL. Players who contracted to the SLPL were
divided among the teams by a draft system that was held behind closed doors in Colombo on Thursday.
The cricket board has
refused to declare the name of the owners of the seven franchises. According to
several media reports, it has been come to know that unanimous Indian companies
have become the owner of the franchises after organizers did not get good
response from local firms.
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