BCCI thinking pay cut for no show

[DesiChap]

New Delhi: After a disastrous show by the Indian team at the World Cup, the BCCI is now contemplating a review of the contracts system and make it more performance oriented. There is also speculation that the number of players under contract may be drastically reduced. The Indian cricketers stand to lose a large amount of money following their first round exit. With the BCCI now likely to link the players' contract to performance, if the players needed an inkling as to what is likely to happen, the answer came from the man responsible for putting the contract system in place. "Lawyers, doctors, engineers, even people from the media field are paid according to their competence and their calibre. In the same way, the team which is considered to be a professional should be paid in the same manner," BCCI Vice-President Shashank Manohar says. The Board might now want to restructure the pay system to reflect their 'perform or perish' mantra. As the system stands now, once a player signs a contract, he stands to get a specified amount of money whether they play or get dropped for the whole year. Till last season, contracted players in the playing XI used to be paid according to the category they belonged to, which means a senior player like Sachin Tendulkar under a Grade A was being paid much more than someone like Mahendra Singh Dhoni who was under Grade B. A fresher like Sreesanth had a Grade C contract and got the least money. Contracted players also get Rs 2.5 lakh per Test match and Rs 1.6 lakh per ODI, including the logo money. For non-contracted players the fee is Rs 3.2 lakh for Tests and Rs 2.2 lakh for ODIs. "There has been a view within the BCCI that contracts should be performance based. We will discuss this with the players," BCCI Vice-President Rajiv Shukla says. The contracts issue is not a new one. Last year a few board members along with Parliamentarians created a row on the issue. "Start encouraging younger players by providing them more opportunity to play in international games which will ultimately be useful for building the team," BCCI President Sharad Pawar says. There are problems within the existing contract system as well. The central contracts, which expired on September 30 last year, are yet to be renewed despite several rounds of talks between BCCI officials and senior players. The new contracts, once in place, will be implemented from October 1 this year. But before that, expect the Board to hand over some strict guidelines to the players.

[Anakin]

Re: BCCI thinking pay cut for no show What about their own competence and salary

[jf1gp_1]

Re: BCCI thinking pay cut for no show this is bizarre. if team fails remove player why cut money. another opportunity to pay cricketers less.

[Chandan]

Re: BCCI thinking pay cut for no show What on earth will it achieve? Will it make players more competent? If yes, then we'd like to know how!

[Zooter]

Re: BCCI thinking pay cut for no show Well this won't work--of course our idiot babus don't know how to manage anything, so I'm not surprised that they came up with this hair-brained scheme. Perfromance SHOULD DETERMINE MEMBERSHIP. If you perform on a consistent basis and do what's expected of you in practice, during the off-season, etc. then you get to be in the team--otherwise--no contract. And when you get kicked-out, ... ... you automatically ... ... ... WON'T GET PAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!