Sri Lanka, May 22 -- The Court of Appeal has scheduled further consideration for 28 May the petition filed requesting an order to nullify the decision taken by the Inland Revenue Department to impose withholding tax on national cricketers who have signed contracts with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), treating them as employees of the institution.

The writ petition was filed by Charith Asalanka and Dhanajaya De Silva as respective captains of the One Day International and Twenty20 cricket teams and the Test Cricket Team, challenging what they term as an arbitrary and unreasonable classification of national cricketers as employees of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) by the Inland Revenue Department.

The petition was taken up before a Court of Appeal benc...