{"id":115772,"date":"2021-07-04T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115772"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:13:00","slug":"part-2-poor-decision-making-of-slc-wrong-time-to-bring-pay-dispute-players-were-distracted-psychology-strength-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/04\/part-2-poor-decision-making-of-slc-wrong-time-to-bring-pay-dispute-players-were-distracted-psychology-strength-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"PART 2 -POOR DECISION MAKING OF SLC-WRONG  TIME TO BRING PAY DISPUTE \u2013 PLAYERS WERE DISTRACTED-PSYCHOLOGY STRENGTH DESTROYED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>2021\ncricket calendar&nbsp; is quite challenging for all teams.&nbsp; Sri Lanka has\na busy schedule&nbsp; as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; SLC&nbsp; started cost cutting&nbsp;\nat the wrong time with the wrong people, the players.&nbsp; The cost cutting\nshould have been undertaken without disturbing the morale of the professional\nplayers.&nbsp; There are far too many pen-pushers at the cricket board, some of\nthem hand picked by politicians and senior members of the Board.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nThere had been no attempt in the past 10 years to decrease the unproductive\nlabour costs, instead steady rise in the numbers and pay deals had taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players\ncontractual terms and conditions are debatable.&nbsp; Their pay deals put under\nthe microscope continuously, especially at times the teams rankings are\ndowngraded by the ICC.&nbsp;&nbsp; In a way, the players pay deals are\nmeasurable,&nbsp; but unproductive labour costs of massive regiment of\nmanagerial and non managerial administrative work force remain at unaffordable\nlevels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLC\nhas spent substantial sum of money to engage overseas psychologists to maintain\ncompetitive mental strength of players.&nbsp; Whilst psychologists were doing\ntheir part of role, the SLC&nbsp; was acting like a bull in the China Shop of\nbringing the pay dispute to the forefront just before series of tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nwas the objective of this issue taken up for review&nbsp; &nbsp;at &nbsp;wrong\ntime.\n\nWas\nit to reduce labour costs of the Board&nbsp; &nbsp;or to punish the players for\npoor performance. <strong>Punishing the players, who generate the funds for the\nCricket Board was a wrong move.<\/strong>&nbsp; At the same time, pay terms need to\nbe rationale, competitive and must be adjusted in a transparent manner by\nreviewing the entire Labour Budget of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE 2021 cricket calendar&nbsp; is quite challenging for all teams.&nbsp; Sri Lanka has a busy schedule&nbsp; as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; SLC&nbsp; started cost cutting&nbsp; at the wrong time with the wrong people, the players.&nbsp; The cost cutting should have been undertaken without disturbing the morale of the professional players.&nbsp; There are far too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}