Pathetic Lankan Board joins BCCI in retardness stakes!

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SLC eager to host IPL matches - Cuts down proposed test cricket! - LINK

The bunch of retards were supposed to host India for a 3 test series and have now 'convinced' BCCI to allow for only 3 match series in both one day and T20 formats citing 'revenue' generation. They are also begging BCCI to allot IPL matches to Lanka for financial help. So not only is Lanka out with a begging bowl literally, it is also demanding India not play tests in favor of shorter formats at the same time. Bloody bastards all of them!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like both the bloody boards to kingdom come!!!!!!!!!

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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has approached the BCCI about the possibility of hosting IPL matches, the new SLC president, Upali Dharmadasa, has said. The idea has been proposed as a way for SLC to raise additional revenue because the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) failed to get off the ground last year, after the BCCI's refusal to allow Indian players to take part in the tournament.

It is for the same reason - an increase in revenue - that India's tour of Sri Lanka in July 2012 will comprise three one-dayers and three Twenty20 games, and no Tests as had been earlier planned. SLC is presently facing a severe shortage of funds following the construction of new stadiums in Pallekele and Hambantota and the renovation of the Premadasa Stadium for the 2011 World Cup.

"I feel it [a T20 league] is a needed thing," Dharmadasa told ESPNcricinfo. "But I don't think it is the right time with India having the IPL. With most of our players going and playing there and the countries being so close, I would request the Indian board, and we have already started talking, why not play a couple of matches in Sri Lanka?"

Dharmadasa pointed out that the flight from Bangalore to Colombo was only an hour long and the flight from Mumbai was only slightly longer than a Mumbai to Chennai flight. "Make it a venture," he said. "On the whole, they [the BCCI] will help Sri Lanka as a tourist attraction and see that Sri Lanka Cricket comes up."

India were supposed to play a full tour - three Tests, five ODIs and a Twenty20 game - in Sri Lanka but it was cut down to just three Tests in the new Futures Tour Programme. Dharmadasa then met with BCCI president N Srinivasan, after being appointed interim SLC president earlier this year, and convinced him that holding limited-overs games would be more beneficial financially to Sri Lanka.

"I am talking to the TV rights owners, Ten Sports," Dharmadasa said. "I am hopeful of raising almost US$12.5 million." He also said he was trying to arrange a fourth ODI as well. "From a revenue point of view, I would love India to tour Sri Lanka three times a year," Dharmadasa said. "Unfortunately, it is not possible. But whenever possible [we would like them to tour]."

The SLPL, in July 2011, had been postponed to August 2012, after facing a series of problems, including the unexpected withdrawal of Indian players from the tournament. The BCCI had withheld permission for its players to participate on the grounds that Somerset Entertainment Ventures, which owned the commercial rights, would be handling the contracts for international players and that could lead to complications should disputes arise over payments. There were also suggestions that former IPL chairman Lalit Modi had a hand in the event, but SLC and Somerset repeatedly denied those allegations, as did Modi.

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Fark, fark, fark them all. Bloody begging motherfokkers all of them Asian board officials!!!!!!!!! I feel very very very angry!!!!!

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Perhaps the time has come to split cricket world and allow the Asian teams of the likes of Sri Lanka, Bangars and BCCI their own setup so they can stop playing tests and work on playing JAMODIs and IPLs all year long. Perhaps it's time cricket was split into 2 different setups. If this is the view and attitude of leading boards of the sub-continent.