The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the central contracts today and it’s almost 1/4th of what Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) offer to Indian cricketers. After the dominating victory against India in the final of ICC Champions Trophy 2017, Pakistan cricket is on a high and fans are hoping that it would be the start of a new era.
In an interesting move, the PCB has made a deliberate effort to focus on young players. They have awarded contract to many unnamed players.
As per the 2017-2018 contracts, a salary hike of 10% is given to all the players of A, B, C & D grade. So as per the new contract, salary of Pakistani cricketers become Rs 6,50,000 per month i.e 78 lakhs per annum for Grade A players.
Category A: Sarfraz Ahmed, Azhar Ali, Shoaib Malik, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Hafeez and Mohammad Amir.
Category B: Babar Azam, Imad Wasim, Asad Shafiq and Hasan Ali.
Category C: Wahab Riaz, Rahat Ali, Haris Sohail, Sami Aslam, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Junaid Khan, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Abbas and Shadab Khan.
Category D: Mohammad Nawaz, Asif Zakir, Usman Salahuddin, Aamer Yamin, Usman Shinwari, Fahim Ashraf, Rumman Raees, Imam-ul-Haq, Bilal Asif, Mir Hamza, Umar Amin, Mohammad Hassan, Mohammad Asghar and Mohammad Irfan.
Their Monthly Remuneration:
Category A: PKR 650,000 = INR 4,00,000 (Approx per month)
Category B: PKR 450,000 = INR 2,76,000 (Approx per month)
Category C: PKR 260,000 = INR 1,60,000 (Approx per month)
Category D: PKR 179,000 = INR 1,10,000 (Approx per month)
Salary Of Indian Players:
Grade A (Rs 2 crore)
1. Virat Kohli, 2. MS Dhoni, 3. Ravichandran Ashwin, 4. Ajinkya Rahane, 5.Cheteshwar Pujara, 6. Ravindra Jadeja, 7. Murali Vijay.
Grade B (Rs 1 crore)
1. Rohit Sharma, 2. KL Rahul, 3. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 4. Mohammed Shami, 5.Ishant Sharma, 6. Umesh Yadav, 7. Wriddhiman Saha, 8. Jasprit Bumrah, 9. Yuvraj Singh.
Grade C (Rs 50 lakh)
1. Shikhar Dhawan, 2. Ambati Rayudu, 3.Amit Mishra, 4. Manish Pandey, 5. Axar Patel, 6. Karun Nair, 7. Hardik Pandya, 8. Ashish Nehra, 9. Kedar Jadhav, 10.Yuzvendra Chahal, 11. Parthiv Patel, 12. Jayant Yadav, 13. Mandeep Singh, 14.Dhawal Kulkarni, 15. Shardul Thakur, 16. Rishabh Pant.
