Noor Fatima Afzal
Lahore: Despite the poor performance in the World Cup, the pockets of the national cricketers have been filled more, a total amount of more than 76 lakh rupees will be received by one player, on the other hand, in the PCB Central Contract, the ICC’s share of the income will be given to the players. will review, a decision will be taken only after looking at the legal aspect.
According to the details, the performance of the cricketers who pressure the board and get the desired remuneration is declining. The team has lost 11 out of 18 T20s and reached the seventh position in the ranking. In both the ODI and T20 World Cups, the journey ended in the first round. There were also defeats against weaker opponents, but the players will still benefit financially.
Each player will be given 16 lakh 74 thousand 336 rupees only in the form of a match fee, more than 5 and a half lakh rupees of daily allowance was received per person, despite being limited to the first round, 2 lakh 47 thousand 500 dollars from ICC ( 7 crores) will be given, 15 players and a share of the management will make more than Rs 43 lakhs per person. For winning 2 matches, 62308 dollars (about 1 crore 75 lakh rupees) will also be received by the green shirts, which will be a part of about 11 lakhs. In total, a player will get more than Rs 76 lakh, excluding sponsor logo money.
It should be remembered that last year the players put pressure on the PCB and fixed the desired remuneration in the Central Contract, the Board was also approved to take three percent of the money received from the ICC. In the new agreement, the test match fee was 12 lakh 57 thousand 795, the compensation for playing a one-day international has become 6 lakh 44 thousand 620 rupees, for playing a T20 match, the players are given 4 lakh 18 thousand 584 rupees.
Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi included in the A category received 45 lakh rupees per month with an increase of 202 percent, 3 percent of the ICC income of 2023-24 became 15 lakh 30 thousand, thus 6 million 30 thousand rupees per month in the current period. Transferred to their account, the monthly salary of Sarfaraz Ahmed, Fakhr Zaman, Haris Rauf, Imamul Haq, Muhammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah and Shadab Khan in the B category has increased to 30 lakh rupees after 144% increase. 41 lakh 47 thousand 500 rupees were given to him per month due to the accumulation of 11 lakh 47 thousand 500 of ICC shares.
Imad Waseem, Abdullah Shafiq, Abrar Ahmed, and Nauman Ali, included in the C category, which received a 135% increase, added 765,000 rupees to ICC’s 1 million rupees per month, so they are receiving 17,65,000 rupees per month. Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ehsanullah, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Wasim Jr., Saeem Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Shahnawaz Dhani, Shan Masood, Osama Mir, Zaman who got placed in D category with 127 percent increase. The monthly salary of Khan, Arshad Iqbal, Aamir Jamal and Tayyab Tahir is 7.5 lakh rupees.
11 lakh 32 thousand 500 rupees were given to him every month due to the collection of 3 lakh 82 thousand 500 rupees by ICC. According to the agreement, in 2024-25 and 2025-26, ICC share will increase to 20 lakh 70 thousand per month (A category), 15 lakh 52 thousand 500 (B category), 10 lakh 35 thousand (C category), and 5 lakh 17 thousand 500 (D category). It will be done, so all the four categories will get 65 lakh 70 thousand (A), 45 lakh 52 thousand 500 (B), 20 lakh 35 thousand 500 (C), and 12 lakh 67 thousand 500 (D) every month, although the current management of PCB IC C is not in favor of giving the share to the players, it will be reviewed, if legal issues do not prevent this process will be stopped.
In last year’s budget, the board allocated Rs 528 million for the cricketers under the Central Contract, to which an additional 3% of the ICC’s revenue was added Rs 220.3 million, totaling Rs 748.3 crore (748.3 Million) was Rs.
The Pakistani team, which got its central contract by putting pressure on the PCB, could not even make it to the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup held in India in September and October last year. In 5 of the 9 matches led by Babar Azam, India Defeats against Australia, Afghanistan, South Africa, and England, beating relatively weak teams from the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and New Zealand, suffered their worst three Test defeats to Australia in December 2023 and January this year. The leadership was handled by Shan Masood.
In the tour of New Zealand in January this year, under the leadership of Shaheen Shah Afridi, they lost 1-4 in the T20 series. While the series was tied 2-2, after failing in the first T20 against Ireland in May, the Green Shirts won the remaining two matches to clinch the series.
In the same month, 2 T20 matches were rained out in England while the remaining two matches were defeated. In the ongoing T20 World Cup, Pakistan was defeated by India after the weak team of America. Proven, the team’s T20 ranking has become 7, the green shirts were number one for a long time in the past.
After the new contract, the team lost 11 out of 18 T20I matches with only 7 victories, and also failed in all three Tests while winning 4 out of 9 ODIs and losing 5.
