Tillakaratne Dilshan unperturbed by RCB player payment delay – Cricket News Update
Sri Lankan batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691, who is also affiliated with Indian Premier League team the Royal Challengers Bangalore, has expressed his confidence in the franchise which has failed to pay its contracted players on time, claiming that he is certain
the cricketers will be paid their full amount.
"We got a little bit of money last week. We spoke to the management and I think they are going to sort this matter out as soon as possible," he said. "Some payment is still due but I am not worried about that. I know the owners are going to clear the dues
and pay us within next month. I know they will pay us our money."
Issues regarding delays in the payment of players affiliated with the RCB and the Deccan Chargers’ franchise first came to light after the 5th edition of the IPL came to an end earlier this year in May, with reports revealing that most players
had not received their dues.
According to clause 1.a.i of every tri-partite IPL contract, which sets out the rules for schedule of payments, players are to be paid 15% of their salaries before the IPL or early into the competition (in April), 50% during the tournament, or near its completion
(by May 1), 20% following the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, and the remainder of the fee (15%) by December 1.
However, it was discovered that the team management had failed to pay the players, including skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221 remained the only player who had been
paid his amount.
Attempts on the players’ part to contact the RCB management went in vain, as emails remained unanswered. Queries registered by the players’ home boards also went unheeded, and attempts on the part of the Federation of International Cricketers' Association
(FICA) to obtain a response were unacknowledged by the RCB.
RCB owners, the UB group, have been rumoured to have run into severe financial difficulties, with owner Vijay Mallya’s airline (Kingfisher Airlines) discovered to be under a debt of around $1.3b.
With the situation having grown desperate, the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) was finally forced to intervene. Summoning RCB officials to a governing council meeting, the board recently ordered the team management to obtain NOCs from the players
on its roster regarding a revised schedule for payments.
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