{"id":1459,"date":"2020-11-19T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=73627"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:54:58","slug":"lpl-2020-sarfraz-ahmed-and-chris-gayle-will-not-be-a-part-of-kandy-tuskers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/lpl-2020-sarfraz-ahmed-and-chris-gayle-will-not-be-a-part-of-kandy-tuskers\/","title":{"rendered":"LPL 2020 : Sarfraz Ahmed and Chris Gayle will not be a part of Kandy Tuskers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lanka Premier League 2020, is yet to begin. However, the continuous setbacks have raised an alarm for the organizers. Earlier, Sarfraz Ahmed pulled out his name of the tournament. Though the Pakistani Keeper had pulled out due to national commitments. Now, Chris Gayle often claimed as \u2018Universe Boss\u2019 by the fans also withdrew his name as he could not agree on commercial understanding with the organizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kandy Tuskers, which is owned by the Bollywood\u2019s Star Salman Khan\u2019s family. The franchise has signed Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel and various other Sri-Lankan cricketers. Lasith Malinga, who pulled out of the just-concluded IPL citing personal reasons, is in two minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.There are also reports of fast bowlers Wahab Riaz and Liam Plunkett are also almost certain to pull out. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amidst all the chaos, Sri Lanka Cricket has projected confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LPL director Ravin Wickramaratne told ESPNcricinfo. \u201cPlayer contracts have been delivered, and they will have to come back to us with their lawyers and all that,\u201d \u201cThere have been issues with transferring money. We\u2019ll talk to franchisees when they arrive. Before the tournament starts they will have to pay 40% to the players.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanka Premier League 2020, is yet to begin. However, the continuous setbacks have raised an alarm for the organizers. Earlier,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[593,299,1023,1045,737],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-chris-gayle","tag-lasith-malinga","tag-lpl","tag-munaf-patel","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}