Cricket: Sidath Wettimuny says SLC is financially healthy

Meanwhile the Lankan cricket boss vehemently denied that the minister of Sports Jayasekera has stopped the employment structure changes or he has stopped the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) cricket kit project which was initiated by the SLC.   He said “Up to this moment (Saturday afternoon) I have not received any intimation with regard to these decisions to cancel these moves taken by the SLC. In fact with regard to the decision on the employment structure, the Sports Minister Jayasekera was fully for it.”   Wettimuny further said that Sri Lanka Cricket is very healthy financially.   “Today we have over Rs. 200 million in the bank plus another US$ 4.6 million in reserve with the ICC to come. When we took over the Interim Committee initially in early April, they started with a Rs. 207 million overdraft and owed US$ 7.8 million to the ICC and the Bank of Ceylon. Besides the amount that they owed to the Bank of Ceylon has been brought down to US$ 370,000 and they are planning to settle that shortly”.   Wettimuny also added that in the five months of their operation from an expenditure budget of over Rs. 1.4 billion, nearly 30 per cent is saved.   He said “This is a good omen. Financially we will not be strong next year”.