After Geneva, now it's foreign intervention in local cricket

It is brought to our notice that vested interests are trying to influence certain SLC officials from seriously considering a bid that a Sri Lankan pioneering television and movie production company with over 30 years of experience in the field, including that of cricket and mega events productions called Fine Vision Group that has collaborated with an Indian company named SportzWorkz in bidding for the production rights of SLC, is being victimized on the pretext that the said company lacks capacity to carry out productions of international standards when in fact they have carried out such productions, especially, when SLC found itself in troubled waters during a recent tour of West Indies when the contractual party refused to carry out the production and Fine Vision stepped in to save the day for SLC.

Fine Vision besides that had carried out the production of SLPL in collaboration with the same Indian company which holds the rights for 3 years for SLPL.

Fine Vision also carries the honour of carrying out the Full HD TV production in Sri Lanka which was broadcasted to more than 100 countries and is the only production company here with Full HD TV capability while agent for many state of the art video production equipment of great repute.

It is further believed that, certain International parties that have bid for these rights are carrying out a vilifying campaign against this consortium in order to ensure that their interests would be safeguarded.

When contacted, the Sri Lankan company explained that benefits to the country would be immense in the event of winning the production rights as that would ensure further training for local professionals in the television field where by 2014 more than 50% of staff will be Sri Lankan and by the 2015 it’ll be more than 95%, saving crucial amounts of foreign exchange to the country while the staff’s employability capacity too would increase.

This would open doors for various foreign projects even for Sri Lankan TV production companies in the region and beyond.

Further, this consortium is the only bidder that has offered to cover domestic, first class and school cricket for more than 10 days each year right throughout the 7 year period, in order to develop more interest in the game locally that would have an ultimate overall positive effect on the game.

Fine Vision Group said if the cost for covering domestic cricket is taken out their price is the lowest from all the bidders.