COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket Friday announced plans to launch its T20 League with the participation of Sri Lankan and International players.
“The tournament will be known as ‘Lankan Premier League (LPL)’, and will be played from 18th August to 10th September, 2018,” said SLC chief executive Ashley De Silva.
SLC is planning to include six teams in the fixture, while each will team will play 10 first round matches. Each team to play two matches with every other team.
During this period, Sri Lanka will be free of international commitments.
SLC first launched the SLPL in 2012, in which Hong Kong-based Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) was the commercial partner. But it was poorly supported and failed to convince franchise owners that they would eventually break even in subsequent years. At least one franchise owner had also seemingly corrupt intentions, having told an SLPL captain that franchises could only make money from the tournament if spot fixing occurred, ESPNcricinfo reports. The player immediately relayed this to the ICC’s anti-corruption unit.
