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Sri Lanka Cricket has streamlined its domestic season to fall within the calendar year from 2022. The new season (2022) will commence in mid-January with the National Super League (NSL) limited-over tournament and will conclude in December with the Lanka Premier League (LPL) third edition.
In the past, the domestic season was run during the financial year from April to March…
Change is desperately needed to local cricket and well done SLC to making a start. I am not sure about the dates but the main thing is to play cricket while it’s dry. The main thing to get sorted is the premier league (provincial) structure sorted as we simply cannot compete with the world with a diluted 20+ team tournament. We need to sort a couple of other things at the same point: (1) wickets – cannot prepare wickets where the spinner opens the bowling, just need a better plan where seamers also play a role (2) contracts – local players require meaningful contracts or they will keep looking to overseas club options (3) 147 clubs voting for the SLC office bearers which has now turned out to be a political circus. Need to start somewhere, so happy to see what we are hoping is a long journey to international competitiveness.