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BCCI decides to remove anomaly in match fee

Special Correspondent

Mumbai: India’s cricketers will be on an equal footing when the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) determines the pay scale for a Test match and one-day international. By making a provision to bring a non-contracted player to the lower-end Grade ‘D’ at once after he’s selected for a Test or ODI, the BCCI has redressed an anomaly that existed in the previous match-fee payments.

Until last year, a contracted player received Rs. 2.6 lakh for a Test and non-contracted player Rs. 3.2 lakh. For the ODIs it was Rs. 1.6 lakh for a contracted player and Rs. 2.2 lakh for a non-contracted player. The players received extra money at the fiscal year end as the BCCI had to disburse the remaining part of the 13 per cent allocated to the Indian team from the annual gross receipts. The BCCI will soon announce the uniform match fee.

With the projected income of Rs. 862.29 crore for year ending March 2008, the pay-out for the Indian team would be around Rs. 55 crore, out of which Rs. 10.8 crore will go to the 33 players brought under the central contract for 2007-08. The domestic — first class and junior — cricketers will also receive their share of Rs. 55 crore.

Domestic players

The BCCI Treasurer N. Srinivasan has confirmed that the senior domestic players would receive Rs. 26,000 per day for the 2006-07 season and that it would touch Rs. 36,000 per day for the 2007-08 season. It means that a player who represented his State, zone in the first class and limited overs tournaments for at least 50 days in the 2006-07 season would receive Rs. 13 lakh and Rs. 18 lakh for the forthcoming season that will begin with the Zal Irani Cup at Rajkot in the first week of October.

Further the players who figure in the final will benefit substantially with the BCCI increasing the prize money for all the men’s senior tournaments to close to Rs. 3 crore. The Ranji Trophy winner will receive Rs. 50 lakh and the runner-up Rs. 25 lakh, and the winner of the Plate Group will receive Rs. 25 lakh and the runner-up Rs. 15 lakh. The Duleep Trophy winner will receive Rs. 30 lakh and the Irani Cup winner Rs. 10 lakh.

The asset worth of the BCCI is a little short of Rs. 962 crore of which Rs. 745 crore is maintained in fixed deposits as against the previous year’s sum of Rs. 545 crore. Current assets, loans and advances stands at Rs. 209 crore.

The BCCI’s 2006-07 gross receipts touched a high of Rs. 652 crore, 81 per cent of it from a high surplus of Rs. 215 crore from tours and Rs. 314 crore from media rights.

Mr. Srinivasan has explained in his report that the drop in income from media rights (Rs. 341 crore for 2005-06) was due to the discount offered to its official broadcaster Nimbus because of the government ordinance that stipulates that a mandatory feed of national importance to Prasar Bharati.

The concession offered to Nimbus is $55 million from March 2006 to March 2010 and additional $8 million for the radio rights fee. Hence the BCCI has adjusted a sum of Rs. 54 crore from the media rights income.

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