COLOMBO, Aug. 31 -- Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal on Monday (Aug 31) nullified a decision by the Commissioner General of Inland Revenue to treat members of the country's national cricket teams as employees of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and impose personal income tax on their earnings.

The ruling was delivered by a two-judge bench comprising Court of Appeal President Justice Rohantha Abeysuriya and Justice Priyantha Fernando, following petitions filed by Sri Lanka men's Test and ODI captains Dhananjaya de Silva and Charith Asalanka, together with members of the national women's cricket team.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Abeysuriya said the writ order invalidated, as a matter of law, the decision by the Commissioner General of Inland Reven...