‘Increase their match fees’ - Chaminda Vaas provides probable solution to end country versus franchise cricket debate

In the last couple of years, a lot of cricketers have opted out of the central contract offered by their national cricket board and instead signed deals with various franchises across the globe. It allows the cricketers to earn much more than they get from the central contract and on top of that, they get to manage their workload whenever required.

This has created a problem as several Indian Premier League franchises have offered multiple years contracts to various players across countries. This can create a problem for international cricket going forward and thus, all the cricketing boards need solutions to stop this from happening. Former Sri Lanka cricketer Chaminda Vaas believes that if all the cricket boards increase the match fees then the problem will eventually get solved.

“T20 cricket has been becoming commercialised and most of the players will benefit from it financially and taking care of them and it’s up to all the cricket boards to find a solution like you know increasing their match payment. If you can do that, I’m pretty sure that the boys will choose which format they have to play and try to sustain that,” Vaas said in an exclusive chat with News18.

Vaas opens up on LPL and its impact in Sri Lanka cricket

Vaas believes that courtesy of the Lanka Premier League, local players are getting some much-needed exposure, which will help them in the coming times. He added saying that the standard of the tournament is improving as well and thus, players will benefit from it.

“Well, it’s (LPL) slowly getting better. We need to have good players from overseas. People like Babar (Azam) and there are quite a few from Australia and it’s good to have all the foreign cricketers and you know playing competitive cricket. A lot of Sri Lankan youngsters can learn from them and even Sri Lanka cricket will go up. There are quite a few guys playing in different leagues but when it comes to Sri Lanka when they play with them with the other players, they can learn so much from them too,” Vaas added.