Top Pakistan cricketers Babar, Shaheen, Hasan need match charge hike: Report

Top Pakistani cricketers together with skipper Babar Azam, wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan, all-rounder Hasan Ali and quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi have appealed to their cricket board to think about a hike in match charges, a web site reported.
All 4, who had been lately awarded ‘A’ grade contracts by the PCB have instructed a senior board official that their match charges must be revised, in response to a report printed in cricketpakistan.com.pk.
According to the report, these gamers should not glad as there was no enhance of their Test, ODI and T20I match charges within the new central contracts.
In July, PCB introduced a performance-based central contract record 2021-22 for 20 gamers, together with three rising cricketers, during which match charges throughout all codecs had been made the identical for all classes.
Only 4 gamers, Babar, Rizwan, Hasan and Shaheen got Category A contracts whereas different senior gamers together with former captains, Azhar Ali and Sarfaraz Ahmed had been relegated to grade B and C respectively.
Veterans like Muhammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Wahab Riaz being given no contracts.
To make herald uniformity throughout codecs, the PCB elevated the Test, ODI and T20 match charges in B and C classes whereas in Grade A, solely retainership proportion was elevated by 25 %.
However, in grade B, Test match charge was elevated by 15 per cent, ODI and T20I remunerations by 20 and 25 per cent respectively.
Similarly, grade C there was 25 per cent enhance in retainer; 34 per cent enhance in Test match charge, 50 and 67 per cent enhance in ODI and T20 International match charges respectively.
As per the web site report, one of many senior gamers have already registered his protest with PCB, Director — International Cricket Zakir Khan and requested for a rise in match charge of Category A gamers.
While Zakir has given no such assurance, the senior cricketer is assured that the board is not going to decline his request.The report stated that the PCB had denied that any cricketer had complained to them about their match charges.