BCCSL agrees to pay money due to Trinity (17 July 1999)

17 July 1999

BCCSL agrees to pay money due to Trinity

SM Jiffrey Abdeen

Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka has agreed to settle the sum of Rs. 1,187,000 (Rupees eleven lakhs eighty seven thousand) due to Trinity College, Kandy for quite some time for services supplied in the past.

This payment includes ground hire charges, services and improvements and additions to infrastructure at Asgiriya dating back to the 1996 Wills World Cup match against Kenya.

In the past Trinity College has been agitating for this payment and there has been a number of meetings of officials of the Cricket board and the school authorities to break this deadlock.

Kandy Regional Cricket Board Secretary Janaka Pathirana told this correspondent that it was during the period of Presidency of Thilanga Sumathipala that some concrete steps were taken to make this payment. But there were several draw backs and an initial payment of Rs. 275,000 was made sometime back leaving a balance of Rs. 1,187,000.

Janaka Pathirana continuing said that since then there were problems and the balance payment could not be made, and in fact, the former President Mr. Thilanga Sumathipala had taken a personal interest in the matter that all dues to Trinity College must be settled in full as this school had been good enough to hire out their grounds for test and other cricket matches and without which there will be no international cricket in Kandy.

Source :: The Daily News