Re: Afghan tour of Zimbabwe, ODI series, Feb 16-26
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:27 am
Arthur Crabtree wrote:He says the board went from one that ran on goodwill to one that used up a lot of money to run itself, rather than the game.
Not sure how that is prove that money was taken out of the domestic game though.
Think he is mostly annoyed that his vision of Domestic cricket in Sri lanka is unlikely to happen.
He can't exactly say money not spent on cricket considering Sri lanka board pays wages, funds first class cricket, Women cricket, A tours, organises cricket tours etc.
Actually technically you can't blame the board if every cricket game their host or most years they basically losing money unless India or England visit of course they have to use money to replace all the expenses, especially when cricket is becoming more of a loss leader every year and money becoming tight year after year.
I think he making more of a political point on interference and how things work there than suggest money been taken out of the sport.