The Sri Lankan cricket authorities today cleared seven of its eight players to play in the BCCI backed multi-million Indian Premier League (IPL) scheduled for April next year.
Captain Mahela Jayawardene and spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan are among the top players to have signed up to play in theinaugural season of the IPL.

"We have approved the names of seven players to play for IPL and the eighth player Nuwan Zoysa does not have a contract with us though his name will also be cleared for playing in the league," Secretary of Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) K Mathivanan told today.

The IPL will be played in the Twenty20 format and is being seen as an answer to the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) floated by the Essel Group.

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