The Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB) has at last revealed the list of central contracts on Saturday. According
to the list, the players have been divided into three different categories- A,
B and C. Not only that but also PCB has increased the percentage of salary by
and match fees of the players.
Players’ salary has been
increased by 25% while match fees sees 10% hike for the calendar year 2012. This
central
contract which was delayed by almost six months has surprised the players
and followers.
The middle-order batsman, Umar
Akmal, has been enlisted in category A. In the previous year, he was in
category B. Other players who have been included in this category are Test
captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Twenty20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez, former captains Younis
Khan and Shahid Afridi and spinners Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman.
Another former skipper Shoaib
Malik also made his comeback in the list. He has been awarded category B along
with batsmen Taufeeq Umar, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq and fast bowlers Junaid
Khan and Aizaz Cheema.
Category C includes Sarfraz
Ahmad, Adnan Akmal, Hammad Azam, Wahab Riaz, Imran Farhat, Faisal Iqbal and
Nasir Jamshed.
It is seen that 21 players
in three different categories have been given full-fledge contracts. Based on
their category they will get respectively $3400, $2,400 and 1,400 a month.
However, according to PCB
chairman, Zaka Ashraf, besides these twenty-one players, other 21 players will
get stipend of $680 a month after impressive performances in domestic cricket.
Players who have been
named for stipend are Sohail Tanvir, Khalid Latif, Sharjeel Khan, Shakeel
Ansar, Haris Sohail, Raza Hasan, Ahmed Shahzad, Usman Salahuddin, Mohammad Ayub
Dogar, Imran Khan, Bilawal Bhatti, Awais Zia, Shahzeb Hasan, Mohammad Khalil,
Anwar Ali, Afaq Rahim, Bismillah Khan, Babar Azam, Sami Aslam, Zia-ul-Haq and
Usman Qadir.
The most surprising thing is that fast bowler, Mohammad
Sami, was not included in any category and not even in the stipend players’
list.
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