Attempts to reschedule the triangular series that also involved India have run into scheduling problems and there are doubts whether India would be interested in a restaging of the event, or be willing to play in another triangular. Dates and times, as with the Champions Trophy, are readily not open.
It is also said that SLC lost an estimated US $ 20-million in TV revenue rights from its cancellation.
It is also claimed that South Africa ducked the tournament as the team had been seriously weakened with injuries to Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis. Ironically, Haroon Logat, now the ICC chief executive, was the convener of the Proteas selection panel at the time.
As it is, SLC, says the Colombo morning paper, the Daily Mirror, are without insurance coverage for the India tour. This is after the company awarded the insurance tenure for the three Tests and five ODIs pushed up the premium demand from US $ 240 000 to US $ 536 000 citing security reasons for more than 100 per cent increase when the security situation in the country had lessened.
Sri Lanka's Minister of Sport, Gamini Lokuge, it is said has cancelled the insurance deal over what is said to be certain questionable actions by two members of the government appointed Interim Committee. The newspaper claimed that both ICC members stood to gain substantially from the deal.
How this impasse over what is a serious financial matter is going to be solved could leave SLC seriously embarrassed if it is not settled.
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