PCB Central Contracts - Do players deserve these high amounts?

[Arsalan Pro]

I was just going through PCB's central contacts announcement for the time period 2018-19 and saw many players currently holding on to big categories in the central contacts, who don't deserve these and with little performance to show for it.

Category A receives 8 lakh monthly with the following players:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam
Azhar Ali
Yasir Shah
Sarfraz Ahmed
Shoaib Malik

Category B receives 5 lakh monthly with the following players:

Hasan Ali
Fakhar Zaman
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Hafeez
Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf


Looking at these 12 players, I don't think most of them should have been rewarded that highly and with central contacts to be renewed in July-August. I think it's time for some major changes.

I would give Category A to only:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam

Category B:

Fakhar Zaman
Yasir Shah(for being worked so hard in Test matches)

Category C:

Haris Sohail
Imam Ul Haq
Shadab Khan
Hasan Ali
Mohammad Abbas
Wahab Riaz
Azhar Ali
Sarfraz Ahmed
Usman Shinwari
Shaheen Afridi

Category D:

Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Hasnain
Imad Wasim
Mohammad Rizwan
Abid Ali
Junaid Khan

Category E:

New young recruits

What do you guys think?

 

[Shoaib88]

ummm what is shoaib malik doing in category a?

 

[the Great Khan]

I was just going through PCB's central contacts announcement for the time period 2018-19 and saw many players currently holding on to big categories in the central contacts, who don't deserve these and with little performance to show for it.

Category A receives 8 lakh monthly with the following players:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam
Azhar Ali
Yasir Shah
Sarfraz Ahmed
Shoaib Malik

Category B receives 5 lakh monthly with the following players:

Hasan Ali
Fakhar Zaman
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Hafeez
Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf


Looking at these 12 players, I don't think most of them should have been rewarded that highly and with central contacts to be renewed in July-August. I think it's time for some major changes.

I would give Category A to only:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam

Category B:

Fakhar Zaman
Yasir Shah(for being worked so hard in Test matches)

Category C:

Haris Sohail
Imam Ul Haq
Shadab Khan
Hasan Ali
Mohammad Abbas
Wahab Riaz
Azhar Ali
Sarfraz Ahmed
Usman Shinwari
Shaheen Afridi

Category D:

Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Hasnain
Imad Wasim
Mohammad Rizwan
Abid Ali
Junaid Khan

Category E:

New young recruits

What do you guys think?

In my opinion category A players should only be for those players who are regular in three or two formats.

category B for those regulars in one format and C for emerging talent. And thats it. I would reduce the number of players on central contracts and increase their wage. Only the best of the best should get contracts.

The rest should be paid by their clubs or the domestic finance model that the PCB will introduce.

if you are a centrally contracted player you should also abide by the rules of the PCB.I would prevent them playing in more than one league. So you can play the PSL and one more and thats it.

The PCB would be responsible for putting all centrally contracted players through a major fitness programme that will include diet and health advice. I would closely monitor them in the off season as well as the on season. I would include clauses in the contract that stipulate various fitness levels and if they fall below they are sacked and lose their contract. i would provide media training and language assistance etc as Wasim has said he will. They will be PCB employees and hence will be under the PCB's jurisdiction.

 

[Gullycricket]

Why are paying so much to Faheem,Malik.

 

[Hawkeye]

I was just going through PCB's central contacts announcement for the time period 2018-19 and saw many players currently holding on to big categories in the central contacts, who don't deserve these and with little performance to show for it.

Category A receives 8 lakh monthly with the following players:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam
Azhar Ali
Yasir Shah
Sarfraz Ahmed
Shoaib Malik

Category B receives 5 lakh monthly with the following players:

Hasan Ali
Fakhar Zaman
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Hafeez
Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf


Looking at these 12 players, I don't think most of them should have been rewarded that highly and with central contacts to be renewed in July-August. I think it's time for some major changes.

I would give Category A to only:

Mohammad Amir
Babar Azam

Category B:

Fakhar Zaman
Yasir Shah(for being worked so hard in Test matches)

Category C:

Haris Sohail
Imam Ul Haq
Shadab Khan
Hasan Ali
Mohammad Abbas
Wahab Riaz
Azhar Ali
Sarfraz Ahmed
Usman Shinwari
Shaheen Afridi

Category D:

Asad Shafiq
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Hasnain
Imad Wasim
Mohammad Rizwan
Abid Ali
Junaid Khan

Category E:

New young recruits

What do you guys think?

Agree. Your list is mostly spot on.

But, I'd include Haris in A or B. Our top performer with the bat, check his stats.

 

[Ronaldo7]

What high amounts??
5 lakh per month is nothing. I assume that the match fees will be more but why are the salaries so low??

 

[Hawkeye]

What high amounts??
5 lakh per month is nothing. I assume that the match fees will be more but why are the salaries so low??

The salaries, as compared to the international level, are indeed quite low.

We should be paying our FC and List A players at least 1 lakh per month to bring any sort of interest from the educated class.

 

[DrSchultz]

Pakistan contracts are probably lowest among test teams.

 

[Pakpak]

What high amounts??
5 lakh per month is nothing. I assume that the match fees will be more but why are the salaries so low??

If you include match fees players like Babar who play all 3 formats earn crores. I did a long analysis last year, so these amounts above are misleading. Eg Hafeez, the year he played all 3 formats, made upto 4-7 crore.

 

[ads101]

Punishing players salaries won't magically make them perform. The pay is mostly fair if anything it's kind of low. I'm not sure it should be done necessarily on how we evaluate performance, that's inaccurate. Should be done on more how much we use that cricketer, that itself defines his importance. If players are automatic selections for formats, they should be higher up.

If anything I think there are quite a few players who should be promoted to at least contract B. Abbas being the most noticeable. Imad another, guys who are regularly playing in the team.

If I had to make lists

Cat A: Fakhar, Babar, Amir, Sarfraz, Azhar, Yasir, Abbas (players who have been sure starters in at least one format for some time)
Cat B: Hafeez, Shadab, Imad, Imam, Asad, Hasan (Hasan's performance has dipped otherwise he'd be A)

Rest would be in the lower categories as they don't command regular starting spots. Malik on usage would be Category B, but probably should be cut from the squads soon anyway.

 

[Hawkeye]

If you include match fees players like Babar who play all 3 formats earn crores. I did a long analysis last year, so these amounts above are misleading. Eg Hafeez, the year he played all 3 formats, made upto 4-7 crore.

Eh, doesn't matter, every major team in the world has that.

The base salaries are very low, which is true.

 

[Arsalan Pro]

What high amounts??
5 lakh per month is nothing. I assume that the match fees will be more but why are the salaries so low??

Comparing them to how much a normal Pakistani earns with serious hard work, this amount is too much for what they actually do on field.

I think people misunderstood what I meant to say, I am saying do some of the senior players deserve A and B categories with younger better performers getting lower C contracts. Ex: Shoaib Malik, Faheem Ashraf, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Hafeez etc

Haris Sohail, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Abbas, Fakhar Zaman deserve much more than them.

 

[Pakpak]

Eh, doesn't matter, every major team in the world has that.

The base salaries are very low, which is true.

Yes but our match fees is higher than a lot of countries. So making a good few crore and this ain't even counting endorsements, sponsors and PSL its insane amount of money by our standards.

 

[Nov15]

Are these contracted players restricted to play in only 2 T-20 tournaments including PSL?

 

[dhump]

800 K rupees is not a lot of money if you compare the salaries of sports personal around the world and worth of rupee and the economic situation in Pakistan. I don't think players are motivated by these salaries, especially not the established once.

Lastly, I saw Hafeez was driving 7 Series BMW. I think it costs twice more than his yearly salary paid by PCB.

 

[ads101]

If you include match fees players like Babar who play all 3 formats earn crores. I did a long analysis last year, so these amounts above are misleading. Eg Hafeez, the year he played all 3 formats, made upto 4-7 crore.

Maybe this is why players are so afraid to lose their spot, and sometimes play selfishly for it as it's match fees where the big money is, contracts in comparison give nothing. If they got paid good amounts from their contract, maybe they'd be a bit more relaxed and work on being the best asset to the squad/team instead. And probably resting players to try out the squad players would be more tolerated in dead rubber/weaker opponents.

 

[Babbar]

There are probably 5 million boy/men in 15-30 year category who play cricket and probably dream to get in Pak national team. These 12 are the best (may not actually be best but selected) available. And what do they get as annual salary - 60K dollars for top 6 and 40K dollars for next 6. Unlike businessmen, they pay full income tax.

If you are good in any field that has over 5 million aspirants, you deserve to be rewarded very highly. Even if you are not world champion.

This salary is lower than almost every Pakistani working in UK or USA. Lower than what lakhs of businessmen, politician or software engineers would be earning in pakistan.

Basic BPO work at 20$ per hour sitting at home pays you more than 40K$/yr

 

[Lovelydayall]

Question, are cricket players salaried government employees?? Thank you for the learning opportunity.

Regarding player salaries,I would say that there should be a fixed base salary and a variable part to their remuneration package based on a set of Key Performance Indicators, compliance to which on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis should determine the pay out and bonuses.

For example, if players do not meet monthly physical training or fitness KPI then their they should be not paid related pay out component and should not be considered for selection.

Similarly, each player in the squad should be given clear service level objectives for the delivery of the performance in each and every match.

 

[Snowflake]

Nowhere in the world is mediocrity rewarded so handsomely. These guys have got it good.

 

[big_gamer007]

International cricketer should be well paid, international sportsperson is one of the most sought after careers and only the very best get in. Salaries should be accordingly.

Now the issue here is people are just annoyed because of the bad performances so are looking for every useless reason they can find to start a thread and vent out their frustrations.

Changing coaches, selectors, captain, players, reducing salaries, imposing bans etc won't help PCT become a top cricketing nation.

The problems are much deep rooted and will take years to build up a good system and clean the polluted mindset of society.

 

[Energy]

So Shafiq getting 5 lakh and enjoying a chilled life, doing nothing for 10 months of the year. That's cute.

The problem is not the salary, it is the players who are being put in those categories using resourcing. Malik in category A is a prime example of the nepotism, corruption and influence that runs in the PCB governance.

 

[Chokli]

Good enough to live in Pak

 

[Majid Khan]

If I had my way, I would simplify how players qualify for these categories.

There should be three categories for contracts : A, B and C where A stands for Ace, B for Brilliant and C stands for Crap.

Only batsmen who average above 40 in ODI cricket or above 50 in test cricket , or bowlers who average under 30 in ODI cricket or under 25 in test cricket should belong to Category B.

Category A should be exclusive for those who meet the qualifying criteria in Test AND ODI formats.

As for Category C - that’s everyone who doesn’t qualify for Cat A and B - pay them the minimum wage... simplez

Hoping my friend [MENTION=9]Saj[/MENTION] can forward this proposal to Wasim Khan

 

[narayanjan]

I think most of you seem to equate money paid to some form of a reward for form. This is fairly true when sport is seen as a spectator sport for amateurs. Being a professional athlete means a guaranteed income beyond thresholds to compete with and dedicate your life to that sport.

Now the question is does a decent amount (8 Lakhs per game which is what a decent IPL player earns) for games played within a two month period —- for playing for the country where the games are now only a few a year — and training and trying to stay uninsured for the rest of the time ..:: fairly high or low?

The fact that the country doesn’t have money to spare or for most people in the country is a very high amount, is a dubious argument. Most people in the country don’t play professional sports. They go to office and work in a 8 to 5 job.

The problem is that professional sports are often paired with professional fans (those willing to pay pay per view etc) not ones that will look to see it for free at some scratch internet website and then argue that the players make too much.

 

[saeedhk]

PCB wasting so much money on idiots like Faheem, Malik, Shadab, Hassan.

 

[jadaja]

What kind of discussion is this, these players sacrifice everything to play the game and yet people are crying over how much money they are being paid. Commenting on the performance is fine but whining about how much they are getting paid is ridiculous.

Has OP seen how many things these players families have sacrificed to get these players to this stage.These guys have such short shelf life.

 

[Pakpak]

Maybe this is why players are so afraid to lose their spot, and sometimes play selfishly for it as it's match fees where the big money is, contracts in comparison give nothing. If they got paid good amounts from their contract, maybe they'd be a bit more relaxed and work on being the best asset to the squad/team instead. And probably resting players to try out the squad players would be more tolerated in dead rubber/weaker opponents.

Absolutely correct too. Entire system is a joke. Everyone is playing for their spots.

 

[Syed1]

Man Faheem Ashraf has to be the luckiest guy in the world. ZERO performance for 2 whole years and still earning Rs. 500,000 per month and this is just base pay. The per match pay they get is additional.

 

[Kaka4pope]

International cricketer should be well paid, international sportsperson is one of the most sought after careers and only the very best get in. Salaries should be accordingly.

Now the issue here is people are just annoyed because of the bad performances so are looking for every useless reason they can find to start a thread and vent out their frustrations.

Changing coaches, selectors, captain, players, reducing salaries, imposing bans etc won't help PCT become a top cricketing nation.

The problems are much deep rooted and will take years to build up a good system and clean the polluted mindset of society.

What do you mean by the polluted mindset of society? Understand cricketing mindset, of those actually involved in the game (not viewers) needs to change - but polluted mind of society? That's a stretch.

English society hasn't changed one bit in the last few years while their cricket has excelled - through investing money and increasing intensity.

 

[big_gamer007]

What do you mean by the polluted mindset of society? Understand cricketing mindset, of those actually involved in the game (not viewers) needs to change - but polluted mind of society? That's a stretch.

English society hasn't changed one bit in the last few years while their cricket has excelled - through investing money and increasing intensity.

Polluted mindset = the power culture in sub continent where people look down upon anyone below then in society and not let them grow, using religion as a tool to pretend to be morally righteous while committing crimes which hinder the growth of nation.
Ultimately this hampers economic growth which in turn hampers sports. English society is such less population than us still they are good at all sports. Why? Because they have proper system in place through grassroots.

Our polluted mindset is we go into sports administration for money and not for developing sports. If someone gives a good idea he is shot down by his boss. That's the kind of culture in our countries. Which needs to be changed.

Once that is changed there is no reason why countries like India/Pakistan can dominate a sport like cricket and do well in other global sports and compete in world cups. We have the manpower to reach that level just lack infra and mindset

 

[Arsalan Pro]

International cricketer should be well paid, international sportsperson is one of the most sought after careers and only the very best get in. Salaries should be accordingly.

Now the issue here is people are just annoyed because of the bad performances so are looking for every useless reason they can find to start a thread and vent out their frustrations.

Changing coaches, selectors, captain, players, reducing salaries, imposing bans etc won't help PCT become a top cricketing nation.

The problems are much deep rooted and will take years to build up a good system and clean the polluted mindset of society.

What I was trying to say is that do some of the old seniors in A and B categories players with poor performances deserve their spots over some of the better performing one in C and D. You just changed the whole topic of the conversation.

 

[Arsalan Pro]

What kind of discussion is this, these players sacrifice everything to play the game and yet people are crying over how much money they are being paid. Commenting on the performance is fine but whining about how much they are getting paid is ridiculous.

Has OP seen how many things these players families have sacrificed to get these players to this stage.These guys have such short shelf life.

I know better than you how much they and their families have sacrificed, don't try to act smart.

The whole purpose of the thread, which you weren't able to comprehend was that, do some of the senior players deserve A and B contracts with nothing performances when better younger players are rewarded poorly with lower paid contracts.

 

[Sunzi]

Nothing wrong with the amounts - they just need to be going to the best players because, surely, representing Pakistan must mean you are the best in Pakistan.

The issue is probably governance i.e the PCB (selectors etc.), which is hardly surprising.

 

[saeedhk]

Man Faheem Ashraf has to be the luckiest guy in the world. ZERO performance for 2 whole years and still earning Rs. 500,000 per month and this is just base pay. The per match pay they get is additional.

Exactly. Probably the worst Pak cricketer. Spends all that money on chains and swag.

 

[bujhee kom]

All told, base salary plus fees etc, do Pk players make more than others outside B3?

Add leagues and advertising.

 

[adil79]

ummm what is shoaib malik doing in category a?

experience of 40 year old is worth more than a youngster who is priming in domestic. Pathetic and rotten set up. No wonder our fate of poor performance is sealed.

 

[adil79]

I dont think the salary includes the allowance, TA DA the players and their "FAMILIES" get when they play outside Pakistan.

 

[zoeyfactor]

Total comp per year is what matters rather than these retainers. How much do these guys get paid in total with per match fees etc?

 

[bujhee kom]

^^

Exactly what I asked. Guessing USD 150,000?

 

[Savak]

Players around the world do not face pay cuts if they are in bad form or not delivering, they just get dropped from the team. The issue is not cutting the pay but dropping players for not performing so that they go back to the drawing board to sort out their issues.

 

[Savak]

If a Central Contracted player in Category A play 20 ODI's, 10 T-20's and 8 test matches in the year. He will be getting Rs 800,000 per month i.e. Rs 9.6 million, Lets say Rs 500,000 per ODI, T-20, Test match i.e. Rs 19 million for the year, I am sure these players are employed full time by their departments lets say Rs 300,000 a month i.e. Rs 3.6 million for the year. These players play T-20 leagues around the world including the PSL lets say 2 leagues a minimum including the PSL $400,000, at the USD-PKR Exchange rate that is Rs 61.6 million. They does not include their commercials, sponsorships, Man of Match performances, Daily allowances on tour, bonuses for scoring a 50, 100, taking wickets, meeting fitness standards or any other business/investment income the players if they are smart enough would have set up for themselves, the A category players are making close to Rs 100 million a year.

Rs 100 million a year is excellent money to live in Pakistan and will allow you to set up yourself and your future generations if you are smart enough to invest the money properly

 

[MenInG]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday decided to make changes in players’ central contracts once the cricket committee completes its review on the team’s performance in the World Cup.

According to the sources, the board has decided to dissolve the emerging/E category from the central contracts. It is also decided that only 15 to 20 players will get the new contracts.

The managing director of the PCB Wasim Khan will give the approval of to the central contracts.

It is pertinent to mention here that currently, 33 players are holding central contracts in five different categories.

Earlier, the board had given central contracts to 10 women cricketers in three categories A, b, and C.

The sources confirmed that the board is keen to do the accountability of players for their performance in the last three years. Only consistent performers will get the central contract.

https://arysports.tv/pcb-revise-central-contracts/

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Sarfraz Ahmed, Mail and Hafeez deserves 20,000 rupees based on their performance. Players should be paid based on their performance and there shouldn’t be any fixed price