Sri Lanka, Nov. 5 -- The Court of Appeal today proposed that the writ petitions filed by Sri Lanka National Cricket players challenging the classification of Sri Lanka's national cricketers as employees of the national association Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) should be resolved with a meeting of the stake holders in the interest of the game of cricket.

The petitions filed by the two national male cricket captains and the female cricketers were taken up today for argument before the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Rohantha Abeysuriya, PC and Justice Priyantha Fernando.

The petitioners, Charith Asalanka and Dhananjaya De Silva, as the respective captains of the One Day International and Twent...