Karachi: Senior players like Mohammad Heafez and Haris Sohail are left behind from the list of 20 Pakistani players who are awarded the central contract by the country’s cricket board with a 25 percent increase in annual view.
Captain and Top Batsman Babar Azam, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi are placed in the highest bracket of Category A.
However, do not reveal the right amount to be paid to the players.
Those who were lost include Hafeaz, who was offered a mid-year contract earlier this year, Sohail, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Abbas, Imad Wasim and Shan Masood.
Senior as Wahab Riaz and Shoaib Malik still remained out of the list like last year.
Interestingly PCB also dropped young Batsman, Haider Ali and Fast Bowler Naseem Shah from a list of contracts in the category that appeared.
PCB announces a 25 percent increase across monthly retainer for the four categories.
The Board said it announced a list of enhanced and performance-based central contracts for 2021-22 for 20 elite men’s crickets where the cost of matches in all formats was also equated.
A council official explains that beforehand, matching players costs differ in various categories in all formats based on seniority.
“But now it has been changed.
The increase has been carried out in the cost of match B, C, and categories that appear in the form of tests, ODI and T20 so that all players get the same cost,” the council stated.
The 12-month contract will run from July 1, 2021 to 30 June 2022.
The remote increase announced for contracted players includes: In category A there will be no improvement in the exam, the cost of the ODI and T20i matches, while in the category B test match costs has increased 15 percent, the cost of the ODI match increased by 20 percent and the T20I match costs increased 25 percent.
In category C, the Board has announced a 34 percent increase in test match costs, an increase in the cost of 50 percent odi matches, and a 67 percent increase in T20i match costs.
Remuneration in the category of developing countries has increased 15 percent, with a 34 percent increase in the cost of test matches, a 50 percent increase in the cost of the ODI match, a 67 percent increase in the cost of T20i matches.
Pic Credit: PCB TwitterPCB Chief Executive Wairim Khan makes it clear that choosing 20 players from a large collection of quality crickets is always a challenging task.
“In a new list, we have seen eight new players emerging who now get a central contract.
Because of the competitive nature of the central contract system of nine players who have a contract in 2020-21 very missing on this occasion,” he said.
“The door remains open strongly for these players and they will continue to remain in the voter’s plan.” Pressual costs mean that all players who walk together to represent Pakistan will receive the same match costs regardless of their categories in, or whether they have a central contract or not, “he said.
The council said the list was completed by the panel consisting of the director – Cricket International, Zakir Khan, Chief of Voters Muhammad Witim and Director, Nadeem Khan, Nadeem Khan, Nadeem Khan, who also consulted the head coach of Misbah-ul-Haq and captain of Babar Azam as part of the process.
The central contract list for 2021/22: Category A – Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheem Shah Afridi Category B – Azhar Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Alam, Fawad Alam, Sharbab Khan and Yasir Shah Category C – Abid Ali, Imam-Ul-Haq, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Nauman Ali and Sarfaraz Ahmed Emerging Category – Imran Butt, Shahnawaz Dahani and Usman Qad and Usman Ir.