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New Delhi: India skipper Virat Kohli had spoken to BCCI ahead of the Champions Trophy and asked them to look into the financial condition of India players who play only one format of the game. And his vision is close to seeing the light of the day as BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry proposed a restructured plan at the board’s financial committee meeting on Friday that looks at the interest of Indian players who are restricted to playing one format and are not regulars in all three formats of the game.
 

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Speaking to CricketNext, a senior BCCI official who has had a few discussions with Kohli on the issue said that Kohli’s concern about players playing just one format and those playing Ranji Trophy made sense as the youngsters who play the IPL have their position taken care of, thanks to the immense popularity of the cash-rich T20 league.

 

“Just prior to the Champions Trophy, then head coach Anil Kumble had proposed a pay hike plan for centrally contracted player that also spoke about the captain getting paid extra for his role as leader. That is when Anirudh spoke to Kohli about the matter as it was hard to believe that a team-man like Kohli would be on the same page as Kumble on the captain getting paid extra for discharging the captain's responsibility. In fact, Kohli went on to say that every player's interest should be taken care of, but especially those who play just one format should be priority.

“Anirudh and Kohli’s thought process definitely match and he has come out with this proposal which not only looks at the interest of players like Cheteshwar Pujara — only plays the Test format — but also of Ranji Trophy players. It is an issue that was also brought up by Harbhajan Singh as he saw the poor pay structure in domestic cricket,” the official said.

In fact, the idea is to create a Test player fund wherein money will come through IPL auctions. Explaining the process, the official said: “We will have a cap on the fee for uncapped Indian players and foreign players. The franchise is free to bid for the player to any extent, but the player will only get what is allowed as per the cap and the rest of the money will go to the fund.”

Asked if this was also a move to ensure that young cricketers don’t start giving T20 cricket priority, the official said: “Well priorities are for the cricketers to decide. Our job is to pass the right signal and there is no two-way about it that we are as much focused on being the No.1 team in Test cricket as we are keen to dominate the 50-over and T20 format. There should be no wrong signal to any player that playing franchise cricket is more lucrative than playing the longer format.”

But all this can happen only after the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators approve of the proposal. “Things have changed and it is no longer the BCCI officials who get to take the final call. It has to be sent to the COA for approval and only then can Kohli and BCCI’s vision see the light of the day,” the official signed off.


 

 

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38 minutes ago, RAZPOR said:

Well credit to kohli if he indeed work for this.

IIRC it was actually Kumble's idea, and Virat only endorsed it.   But lets erase Anil Kumble's tenure from memory, even remove him from official photographs, soviet style.   And the propaganda to glorify the current captain, Mr. Wrogn, can continue.   

 

Rukawat ke liye khed hai!

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8 minutes ago, sandeep said:

IIRC it was actually Kumble's idea, and Virat only endorsed it.   But lets erase Anil Kumble's tenure from memory, even remove him from official photographs, soviet style.   And the propaganda to glorify the current captain, Mr. Wrogn, can continue.   

 

Rukawat ke liye khed hai!

Hey Sashtri uncle will love it...

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3 minutes ago, Vilander said:

So basically steal from young players in t20 and give to test players..why cant established players give a certain percentage ?..

All this for pujara.

Why should bcci cut money from any player? Doesn't bcci make enough already.

 

How fair is it for bcci to cut money from players when they do not allow Indian players to play in other t20 tournaments?

 

You restrict them to ipl and cut money from them.

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Absolutely disgusting news if true, BCCI stealing money from young T20 players for paying domestic players will be a infuriating and illogical  step, But this has been the thinking of most of the people in our country. On every online news about IPL or player salaries, you can read the level of vitroil posted by our fellow countrymen who diss and tell that such money should not be paid. Anyone making good money, being successful is looked at scornfully and few expletives are thrown towards the person or his family if they are in business.

 

The thousand years of foreign rule followed by the socialist Nehruvian experiments with our country has really messed up the basic economic thinking of most of the general population, it will take us a thousand years to get out of this mentality.

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I think creating a mechanism to provide higher compensation to test players is good.  Especially for test bowlers.  Else why should bowlers work on their test bowling skills, where they have to bowl 5 times more overs, for 1/10th the pay they could get by playing in T20s?   

 

But the way this is proposed - robbing the young ones and phoren players, is wrong.  Is the BCCI so short on cash that they can't take a few crores from its billions in earnings for this fund?   

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36 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Yes, the idea is good.  but paying for it by capping the earnings of young players is outrageous.  

when you say young players i assume you mean uncapped players. why is it outrageous? in order to promote tests you have to suppress the T20 monster.

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56 minutes ago, sandeep said:

I think creating a mechanism to provide higher compensation to test players is good.  Especially for test bowlers.  Else why should bowlers work on their test bowling skills, where they have to bowl 5 times more overs, for 1/10th the pay they could get by playing in T20s?   

 

But the way this is proposed - robbing the young ones and phoren players, is wrong.  Is the BCCI so short on cash that they can't take a few crores from its billions in earnings for this fund?   

Problem is no one watches them toil. Thats where problem lies. Howevever principally I agree with the view that if a player can make to Indian test team, He should be financially rewarded, atleast enough to class him richer than most IPL stars

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