Income for cricketers in the new domestic cricket structure

[MenInG]

Players can earn more than PKR 2million across the 2019-20 season

· Winning prize money for Quaid-e-Azam Trophy has increased by 233 per cent, along with a surge of 150 and 100 per cent for Pakistan Cup and National T20 Cup

· “The new structure along with enhancing the quality of cricket at the first-class level is designed to improve the earning levels of our domestic cricketers,” says PCB CEO Wasim Khan

Lahore, 1 September 2019:

Despite a reduction in the number of teams, leading to a lesser number of matches, in the reformed domestic structure, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will inject over PKR 1billion this season.

A heavy chunk from it has been allocated for the welfare of players by providing them unprecedented remunerations, based on enhanced retainers, match-fees, allowances, and prize money which can bring a spike by more than PKR2million in a player’s bank statement over the course of the upcoming season.

As per the new model, the six Cricket Associations will provide year-long contracts to 32 players each to provide them stable income. The 192 contracted players will earn PKR600,000 per annum on the basis of PKR50,000 monthly retainers.

Previously, the regional cricketers at the first-class level were solely reliant on the match-fees.

The PCB, this season, has also bettered their per match remunerations. For the better understanding, a breakdown is provided below.

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The players turning out for the Cricket Associations’ second XIs, U19s, and city cricket associations will also see a rapid surge in their earnings.

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The 32 contracted players will also receive daily allowances, along with bed and breakfast in shape of three and four-star accommodations, lunches at the venues and economy-class flights (when traveling inter-province).

The prize money for the domestic events has also been increased manifold. The winning prize money for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy has been increased by 233 per cent, along with a surge of 150 and 100 per cent in the winning prize money for Pakistan Cup One-Day Tournament and National T20 Cup.

The winners of the country’s premier first-class tournament, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, will be awarded PKR10million and the runner-up will get PKR5million. Another PKR5million will be handed out to tournament’s top-performers and the man-of-the-final will take PKR50,000 home.

The winners of the Pakistan Cup One-Day Tournament and the National T20 Cup will get PKR5million, and the runner-up will bag half of it. The man-of-the-final for both tournaments will be awarded PKR35,000.

The top-performers for the apex one-day tournament will get a share from the pool of PKR250,000. For the T20 tournament, it would be from PKR100,000.

PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan said: “The new structure along with enhancing the quality of cricket at the first-class level is designed to improve the earning levels of our domestic cricketers.

“It is alarming that for such a long time the cricketers at this level were deprived of the income that they rightfully deserve. Our aim is to develop cricket as a career-option for the young and upcoming cricketers. The PCB, along with a focus on first-class players, wants the players at the lower rungs of the structure to take decent earnings home"

“I am hopeful that this increase in the income levels will not only encourage the cricketers at the periphery to work hard, but will also attract new players to the game.”

 

[Hawkeye]

Manipulation of words. Looks like a farce.

Any system where the monthly retainer is only 50k pkr, about $250. $300, is going to be a farce.

This isn't going to attract any educated athletes or the middle to upper class.

Not even enough to survive. Should've made domestic cricket attractive and well compensating.

 

[shah_1]

Manipulation of words. Looks like a farce.

Any system where the monthly retainer is only 50k pkr, about $250. $300, is going to be a farce.

This isn't going to attract any educated athletes or the middle to upper class.

Not even enough to survive. Should've made domestic cricket attractive and well compensating.

Because this isn't taking the department monthly salary package into consideration. All those old numbers mentioned were of regional cricketers. The match fees has increased though for all crickters. The concept of shield cricket is to play elite cricket, not much difference betwee international cricket and domestic, their state cricketers get paid more than our international cricketers.

People need to understand that you can 't compare normal jobs salary with sportman's. 1) supply and demand makes it automatically lucrative 2) sportman don't have a long career(avg 15 years) unlike with people with normal jobs 3) if software engineer isn' good for one company then he applies for dozen more companies whereas if you aren't good enough for first class then there is no other option

 

[MMHS]

This is good start, but I think they need to increase Match fees even more, much more. The best way to distribute wealth in mass (lower tier players) instead of polarizing among few players, is to increase match fees. Top players will always earn much more from several other sources, but it's essential that next 100 players are taking home a decent amount that will keep them focused.

Let's do some maths:

Total games are 30 (+ Final), so total playing XI is = 30 X 22 = 660. That's the same number for List A as well (Considering PAK Cup will also be double league). If I take 5 players as reserves (Half of 32), in this model, they are paying out as match fees around

FC: 22 X 30 X 75,000 + 10 X 30 X 30,000 = 56,100,000 PKR
List A: 22 X 30 X 40,000 +10 X 30 X 16,000 = 29,920,000 PKR
Total Match Fee = 86,020,000 PKR.

This is nothing, for 96 (16 X 6) Players. That's average of 896,041.67 (Actually lower, because same set of 96 players definitely won't play entire season).

75,000/match sounds quite big, but these are basically distractions, if we look at it as a whole - PCB's office is wasting (stealing) much, much more money than this, for non productive events.

Normally, Corporate bear a salary expense around 10-12% (Of annual Gross Revenue), large corporate with lots of lower pay scale employees (Say Walmart), can bring that to 6% level may be, but for an Organization like Cricket Board, where players are like revenue earning assets, even 12% is less. Still if I take 12% of 750 crore PKR (My rough estimation, including PSL), 12% is around 90 crore - and they are paying 8 crore to top 100 cricketers!!! (I know, there is contract money, lower tier players, national team's payment.....).

Just for a check, why I think still this not even remotely enough for top 100 (96) cricketers - take the same equation, by almost tripping FC payment (200,000/80,000 PKR) and doubling List A payment (80,000/35000 PKR), that amount goes to

FC: 148,500,000 PKR
List A: 60,500,000 PKR
Total: 209,000,000 PKR

That's around 2mn PKR/year at an average or roughly $13K/Year for ~100 players - now we can say, it's a decent amount and PAK FC players won't come to Dhaka League or UAE Fixed League or Hong Kong Circus leaving their Domestic season.

That's an increase of around 11.5 crore/year (from 8.6 crore), or roughly 1.5%-1.7% increase in PCB's baseline Gross Revenue Target. What triple - I should have made it more than quadruple!!!!!

NOT HAPPY AT ALL - They have slashed the number of FC Players to 25% (of usual), and increased the payment marginally. Top 100 players MUST be ensured a guaranteed bucket, fat enough that they can focus on cricket and only cricket and nothing but cricket (And mostly on FC/List A Cricket - that's why I haven't increased T20 payment, it should be discouraged, if not killed), for 4,000+ hours/year, for average 12 years - and this will force them for maximum effort to protect (train, perform, keep in shape, be disciplined) their job desperately enough, just like a professional tries to safeguard his/her high paying corporate job. At this moment, a FC cricketer career in PAK isn't just lucrative enough that someone can die for it - PCB has to make that.

 

[hussain.r97]

Manipulation of words. Looks like a farce.

Any system where the monthly retainer is only 50k pkr, about $250. $300, is going to be a farce.

This isn't going to attract any educated athletes or the middle to upper class.

Not even enough to survive. Should've made domestic cricket attractive and well compensating.

Isn't the monthly retainer only the base pay? Assuming a player plays even 2/3rds of all matches in the domestic season, they will earn PKR 3.2m per annum, which comes to about $20k USD. Add to that, PSL pay, your typical lower-level domestic level player playing even two-thirds of the domestic season + PSL could potentially earn up to $30k USD, seems quite reasonable to me.

Then there are also the coaching jobs Wasim Khan mentioned, that players could potentially take up during the off-season, which would obviously add to that income.

 

[shah_1]

This is good start, but I think they need to increase Match fees even more, much more. The best way to distribute wealth in mass (lower tier players) instead of polarizing among few players, is to increase match fees. Top players will always earn much more from several other sources, but it's essential that next 100 players are taking home a decent amount that will keep them focused.

Let's do some maths:

Total games are 30 (+ Final), so total playing XI is = 30 X 22 = 660. That's the same number for List A as well (Considering PAK Cup will also be double league). If I take 5 players as reserves (Half of 32), in this model, they are paying out as match fees around

FC: 22 X 30 X 75,000 + 10 X 30 X 30,000 = 56,100,000 PKR
List A: 22 X 30 X 40,000 +10 X 30 X 16,000 = 29,920,000 PKR
Total Match Fee = 86,020,000 PKR.

This is nothing, for 96 (16 X 6) Players. That's average of 896,041.67 (Actually lower, because same set of 96 players definitely won't play entire season).

75,000/match sounds quite big, but these are basically distractions, if we look at it as a whole - PCB's office is wasting (stealing) much, much more money than this, for non productive events.

Normally, Corporate bear a salary expense around 10-12% (Of annual Gross Revenue), large corporate with lots of lower pay scale employees (Say Walmart), can bring that to 6% level may be, but for an Organization like Cricket Board, where players are like revenue earning assets, even 12% is less. Still if I take 12% of 750 crore PKR (My rough estimation, including PSL), 12% is around 90 crore - and they are paying 8 crore to top 100 cricketers!!! (I know, there is contract money, lower tier players, national team's payment.....).

Just for a check, why I think still this not even remotely enough for top 100 (96) cricketers - take the same equation, by almost tripping FC payment (200,000/80,000 PKR) and doubling List A payment (80,000/35000 PKR), that amount goes to

FC: 148,500,000 PKR
List A: 60,500,000 PKR
Total: 209,000,000 PKR

That's around 2mn PKR/year at an average or roughly $13K/Year for ~100 players - now we can say, it's a decent amount and PAK FC players won't come to Dhaka League or UAE Fixed League or Hong Kong Circus leaving their Domestic season.

That's an increase of around 11.5 crore/year (from 8.6 crore), or roughly 1.5%-1.7% increase in PCB's baseline Gross Revenue Target. What triple - I should have made it more than quadruple!!!!!

NOT HAPPY AT ALL - They have slashed the number of FC Players to 25% (of usual), and increased the payment marginally. Top 100 players MUST be ensured a guaranteed bucket, fat enough that they can focus on cricket and only cricket and nothing but cricket (And mostly on FC/List A Cricket - that's why I haven't increased T20 payment, it should be discouraged, if not killed), for 4,000+ hours/year, for average 12 years - and this will force them for maximum effort to protect (train, perform, keep in shape, be disciplined) their job desperately enough, just like a professional tries to safeguard his/her high paying corporate job. At this moment, a FC cricketer career in PAK isn't just lucrative enough that someone can die for it - PCB has to make that.

What a great post

A cricket bat cost more than 50 thousand rupees, sports grear, nutritious diet, suplements, and training all cost money . You have to take care of your family as well..

The incresse isn't much considering the high inflation

 

[MenInG]

Poll added - pls add your votes

 

[Hawkeye]

Isn't the monthly retainer only the base pay?t

For a vast majority of the domestic cricketers they'll only be earning 50k pkr. Also look at [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] 's post.

I had high expectations from this setup re. player wages.

If we want to bring back cricket and especially to the middle to upper class, this just isn't going to cut it.

Even those who agree to get paid 50k pkr will be struggling, and always looking for earning opportunities elsewhere, not fully focusing on cricket.

Point is the base pay is too low and most cricketers will only earn that much. For those managing to go above, that too isn't a huge amount.

 

[shah_1]

Lets look at the our primer FC tournament

(75,000* 11*31)+(30,000*5*31)+(50,000*96*12)=87,825,000 that is equal to $560,000 being spent on all 96 players. Imagine how much T20 players are earning single handedly

 

[Hawkeye]

Lets look at the our primer FC tournament

(75,000* 11*31)+(30,000*5*31)+(50,000*96*12)=87,825,000 that is equal to $560,000 being spent on all 96 players. Imagine how much T20 players are earning single handedly

Well said. Just not attractive enough, even for the small group who manages to play the top games.

 

[MenInG]

Really the question is - Does the PCB have enough money to pay for all the big things we all want?

 

[shah_1]

Really the question is - Does the PCB have enough money to pay for all the big things we all want?

We are the second biggest market after India and there has been no concept of marketing Pakistan cricket. Hopefully Wasim Khan will make sure that PCB does run like a coperate entity, start making money that is close to our poteintal

 

[Savak]

Lets look at the our primer FC tournament

(75,000* 11*31)+(30,000*5*31)+(50,000*96*12)=87,825,000 that is equal to $560,000 being spent on all 96 players. Imagine how much T20 players are earning single handedly

The PCB has an annual budget of Rs 10 billion. If they can afford to overpay some useless people in the PCB, surely they can afford to pay attractive wages to the players in first class crickets.

The monthly retainer and match fees have to be extremely attractive enough to entice someone to give up education in exchange for playing for Pakistan. Unfortunately the PCB wage structure just does not take into account the amount of inflation which has existed in Pakistan in the last ten plus years

 

[Savak]

The PCB did say in the discussion that these payments are just a start. Once the system gets up and running and starts to generate money, it is only going to improve and go up. I guess we will have to give them time

 

[hayat007]

when this system is up and running there are going to be sponsorship and players can directly and indirectly benefit from it. Imagine Lahore and Karachi are playing QEA trophy final.

 

[Saj]

I'm glad that PCB are realising that there is more to Pakistan cricket than the PSL.

Previous regime just seemed to be obsessed with the PSL which was a dangerous and wrong direction and which meant that other tournaments suffered.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dream come true &#55357;&#56883;? I used to earn 1.5m a year with job security and medical facilities for me and my family. And now I’ll earn 1.2m only if I play all the games with no job security and medical. DREAM COME TRUE FOR me and for all the cricketers and their families. <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ImranKhanPTI</a></p>— Rameez Raja (@rameezraja_jr) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameezraja_jr/status/1169557202857861120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[DrSchultz]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dream come true ��? I used to earn 1.5m a year with job security and medical facilities for me and my family. And now I’ll earn 1.2m only if I play all the games with no job security and medical. DREAM COME TRUE FOR me and for all the cricketers and their families. <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ImranKhanPTI</a></p>— Rameez Raja (@rameezraja_jr) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameezraja_jr/status/1169557202857861120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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He's right. PCB is being very cunning since they are not showing departmental salaries from last year, only those of poorly paid regions.

 

[shah_1]

PCB were too quick to abolish department cricket.

I like the new structure but with changes. 3 day tournament of top 8 department teams from 15 dec to 20 jan, also grade 2 for other deparment teams and you can also have department one day tournament in May. Department used to pay 25 lacs to PCB to partcipate in the tournament instead of giving it to PCB, use the money to pay the match fee of players. Department cricket have their own stadiums and ground staff, both department tournaments wouldn't be a financial burden for PCB.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dream come true ��? I used to earn 1.5m a year with job security and medical facilities for me and my family. And now I’ll earn 1.2m only if I play all the games with no job security and medical. DREAM COME TRUE FOR me and for all the cricketers and their families. <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ImranKhanPTI</a></p>— Rameez Raja (@rameezraja_jr) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameezraja_jr/status/1169557202857861120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a performance-based system, if he had a better record, he could theoretically be in the first XI and get up to to 2.5m, but he's been rightfully picked for the Sindh 2nd XI.

 

[shah_1]

PCB were too quick to abolish department cricket.

I like the new structure but with changes. 3 day tournament of top 8 department teams from 15 dec to 20 jan, also grade 2 for other deparment teams and you can also have department one day tournament in May. Department used to pay 25 lacs to PCB to partcipate in the tournament instead of giving it to PCB, use the money to pay the match fee of players. Department cricket have their own stadiums and ground staff, both department tournaments wouldn't be a financial burden for PCB.

Btw I'm saying for only 3 years till the regions get financially strong to provide good packages

 

[Khan12]

In a performance-based system, if he had a better record, he could theoretically be in the first XI and get up to to 2.5m, but he's been rightfully picked for the Sindh 2nd XI.

He's lucky that he's even picked a rubbish player. Let's not forget this rubbish was also picked by Sarfraz in PSL over Saud.

 

[hussain.r97]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dream come true ��? I used to earn 1.5m a year with job security and medical facilities for me and my family. And now I’ll earn 1.2m only if I play all the games with no job security and medical. DREAM COME TRUE FOR me and for all the cricketers and their families. <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ImranKhanPTI</a></p>— Rameez Raja (@rameezraja_jr) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameezraja_jr/status/1169557202857861120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Below average player who was benefitting off the old system, and rightfully picked for Sindh 2nd XI. 1st XI players will earn much more than they did under the old system.

 

[Titan24]

In a performance-based system, if he had a better record, he could theoretically be in the first XI and get up to to 2.5m, but he's been rightfully picked for the Sindh 2nd XI.

Below average player who was benefitting off the old system, and rightfully picked for Sindh 2nd XI. 1st XI players will earn much more than they did under the old system.

This!

In the previous system irrespective of how good you are as a player and if you havent played international or are not big name you would be paid almost just like any other player who isnt even close to national call.

This system gives reward to improve yourself and push yourself and its not like players who arent in top tiers not getting much rather they are still getting decent amounts but a high performer is being paid more which completely makes sense.

While I definitely feel for players who might be getting less than before but PCB is not a NGO, NPO etc. Its a profit oriented institution with the goal of providing polished players to Pak’s national cricket team.

 

[DrSchultz]

Below average player who was benefitting off the old system, and rightfully picked for Sindh 2nd XI. 1st XI players will earn much more than they did under the old system.

What is your source? How much were departmental first XI cricketers being paid (from SNGPL, HBL, UBL, KRL, WAPDA). Please share if you have it.

 

[DrSchultz]

In a performance-based system, if he had a better record, he could theoretically be in the first XI and get up to to 2.5m, but he's been rightfully picked for the Sindh 2nd XI.

Let us not be so insensitive and show glee at hardworking athletes losing their jobs and medical insurances of their elderly parents and children. Yes I know it is a performance based system and sports is a cut throat business but we can at least sympathies with the affectees.

RR Jr. might not have top stats but he has spent his whole life in cricket and now at the age of 33 has no other skills because PCB never worked on developing skills of the first class cricketers for post retirement jobs. Please let us not mock and degrade them, they are also suffering. It is a cruel world.

 

[Abdullah719]

Let us not be so insensitive and show glee at hardworking athletes losing their jobs and medical insurances of their elderly parents and children. Yes I know it is a performance based system and sports is a cut throat business but we can at least sympathies with the affectees.

RR Jr. might not have top stats but he has spent his whole life in cricket and now at the age of 33 has no other skills because PCB never worked on developing skills of the first class cricketers for post retirement jobs. Please let us not mock and degrade them, they are also suffering. It is a cruel world.

No one is mocking and degrading. But there is a first and second XI, and looking at his stats and age, it's completely understandable as to why he's not in the first XI. It's a fact that with a better record or better performances in recent seasons, he could've been selected in the first XI which would have ~doubled the maximum pay available to him.

Having said that, remunerations should be increased, there's no doubt about that. Proper contracts for all the players involved is the first step, now there should be progress made with the amount given to players, to make professional cricket a viable option for people across the spectrum of society.

 

[shah_1]

Let us not be so insensitive and show glee at hardworking athletes losing their jobs and medical insurances of their elderly parents and children. Yes I know it is a performance based system and sports is a cut throat business but we can at least sympathies with the affectees.

RR Jr. might not have top stats but he has spent his whole life in cricket and now at the age of 33 has no other skills because PCB never worked on developing skills of the first class cricketers for post retirement jobs. Please let us not mock and degrade them, they are also suffering. It is a cruel world.

People don't understand the harsh reality of these Pakistani domestic cricketers. Australian or other domestic cricketers from rich cricket board earn a lot so they can save enough money after retirement at young age. A person who is 35 to 36 year old is very young, still has lot to live for. He has wife and kids to support

 

[shah_1]

This is the vision of Rahul Dravid, he understands the problem of young cricketers. Australia has a similar program

Rahul Dravid bats for alternate careers for young cricketers

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/rahul-dravid-bats-for-alternate-careers-for-young-cricketers/articleshow/67766164.cms

 

[shah_1]

25 lacs will be earned once you play all 28 games in a season. Very few will play all matches

It is impossible

X player play 6 FC, 7 list A, 3 T20 games

16.5 lacs

 

[offstump]

It will get better over time. Since the number of players playing top-tier domestic cricket has been reduced, there will be more money to go around. Year over year the salaries will increase but its a long process. At this point sponsorships and viewership is next to nothing as the public only considers international cricket worth watching.

 

[azimiqbal]

Looks guys I completely agree that the earnings are not high enough.

But it’s all simple economics once sponsorship comes in I expect player playing in the first teams earning around 5 million rupees .

Let’s give it time we all been begging for change and nothing happens over night.

My hope is we get to the point none our top cricketers will have to play t20 leagues around the world.

Let’s just hope PCB stick to there word.

 

[MenInG]

Protests by SSGC Cricketers who lost their jobs due to changes in domestic system

Source Twitter

 

[MoFresh23]

Protests by SSGC Cricketers who lost their jobs due to changes in domestic system

Source Twitter

It's sad that they lost their jobsbut tell me who are these people that are protesting?They look like they are in their late 30s and in their 40s.

People dont realize that before PCB changed the domestic structure and reformed it, some dept's were already demoslishing their own teams before the domestic structure was even reformed yet.

No one is stopping departments to run their own private tournaments. WK and Ehsan Mani have stated that they can run their own tournaments but they wont get first class status. I dont know why departments are not doing that.

These cricketers that losing jobs should protest to their departments. According to cricketers that lost jobs are saying that departments have lots of money. So why not arrange tournaments for your cricketers

No other cricketing country has departments running first class cricket. England have counties, Australia have States, and India have provinces.

PCB is not an employment bureau and neither is domestic cricket. The best will stay and the non performers will get kicked out. That's what makes a system strong and gives lots of stress in the system.

Every cricketer that played in the recent reformed domestic structure system has said that there was lots of competition and that the matches actually meant something. An example is from the recent interview of Saud Shakeel.

Quality over quantity is what gives you world class players that have are nurtured in every aspect of the game. Whether its mentally, physically, tactically, and etc.

Once again:
PCB is not an employment bureau and neither is domestic cricket. The best will stay and the non performers will get kicked out. That's what makes a system strong and gives lots of stress in the system

 

[Bewal Express]

Although I agree with the PCB decision as the quality of cricket has and will improve. For example the batsman batted on flat wickets and got to bat time and the bowlers bowled on flat wickets against decent players. From a human perspective, the solution is to give a 6 week window for the Depts to hold Tournaments and give these guys a job. The PCB must also work with them to find them jobs. But the overall the old system produced poor players, and it was too reliant on finding gems by default rather than any systemic way.

 

[shah_1]

Although I agree with the PCB decision as the quality of cricket has and will improve. For example the batsman batted on flat wickets and got to bat time and the bowlers bowled on flat wickets against decent players. From a human perspective, the solution is to give a 6 week window for the Depts to hold Tournaments and give these guys a job. The PCB must also work with them to find them jobs. But the overall the old system produced poor players, and it was too reliant on finding gems by default rather than any systemic way.

Best solution imo

 

[Savak]

Although I agree with the PCB decision as the quality of cricket has and will improve. For example the batsman batted on flat wickets and got to bat time and the bowlers bowled on flat wickets against decent players. From a human perspective, the solution is to give a 6 week window for the Depts to hold Tournaments and give these guys a job. The PCB must also work with them to find them jobs. But the overall the old system produced poor players, and it was too reliant on finding gems by default rather than any systemic way.

The PCB has told the departments that if you want to hold department tournaments then go right ahead, we won't stop you but the department tournaments will not have first class status.

 

[MoFresh23]

The PCB has told the departments that if you want to hold department tournaments then go right ahead, we won't stop you but the department tournaments will not have first class status.

Yes your absolutely correct. Departments can run their own tournaments but will not get first class status. And that's how it should be. The previous system was not competitive whatsoever and did not produce any cricketers as world class cricketers.

No other cricketing country has departments running their first class structure.

 

[MenInG]

Senate Standing committee for Inter Provincial coordination has summoned PCB Chairman on 21st of this month to explain the reason why departmental teams were closed and brief about cricket's infrastructure.

 

[MenInG]

Wapda Sports Board has diluted its cricket team and opted to send them on field tasks or fire them, Daily Times reported.

This order will have an impact on star cricketers Salman Butt, Asif, Wahab Riaz, and Kamran Akaml.

The Wapda cricket team’s contract and permanent personnel were given two options: join field chores or go home.

 

[shah_1]

Wapda Sports Board has diluted its cricket team and opted to send them on field tasks or fire them, Daily Times reported.

This order will have an impact on star cricketers Salman Butt, Asif, Wahab Riaz, and Kamran Akaml.

The Wapda cricket team’s contract and permanent personnel were given two options: join field chores or go home.

Haha very happy for Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal