Sri Lanka cricket board set to make big financial gains

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the governing body of the game in the island nation, is set to make big gains financially from the white ball series against India staring here on July 13. "We had initially finalised to host three matches. But after some negotiations with the Indian cricket board, we managed to increase the matches to six which will enable us to raise an additional US 6 million dollars in revenue," SLC president Shammi Silva was quoted as saying in the Daily Star newspaper. The report also said that the Sri Lankan board stands to earn US 12 million dollars from the six-match series. IANS

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