SLC assures improvements in domestic cricket

03 Sep, 2012

The Sri Lanka Crocket Board has assured that domestic cricket will be taken to another level.

Cricket Board chairman Upali Dharmadasa was?quoted?in a cricket board statement today as saying ?Sri Lanka Cricket hopes to transform the Sri Lankan Domestic cricketing outlook, from domestic level to International level.

“With greater things in mind during their period, I together with the executive committee have decided to fund the districts and the provinces by rewarding them for their hard work with funds and cricket materials to administer, manage, and play cricket in their respective areas,? he said.

Further more he stated that in the years to come the franchises of the Sri Lanka Premiere League will step forward in a big way to invest further with not only the elite provincial teams but also become an integrated part of the grass root level cricket and its infrastructure that shall be the breeding grounds of up- and ? coming crickets, to showcase their talents and skills.

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