The PCB has introduced an increment in its domestic players’ month-to-month retainers and match fee, throughout all codecs and ranges, for the 2022-23 season.
As per the brand new monetary mannequin, a participant that includes in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy will now get a match fee of PKR 100,000 versus the earlier PKR 60,000. Those taking part in the white-ball tournaments – the Pakistan Cup and the National T20 – will now earn PKR 60,000 per recreation as a substitute of PKR 40,000.
The non-playing members of a squad will get PKR 40,000 and PKR 20,000 per match in purple and white-ball cricket respectively.
Pakistan’s domestic season began on August 30 with the National T20; those that participated in it did so with no contract. ESPNcricinfo understands that the PCB’s domestic and high-performance centre was ready for the Board of Governors (BoG) to approve the brand new mannequin. Those who’ve performed in the National T20 will get their match fee as per the brand new construction.
In all, the PCB will provide contracts to 192 players throughout 5 classes. Fifteen players shall be in class A+, 35 in class A, 48 in class B, 70 in class C and 24 in class D. The board is but to announce the names of the contracted players.
“Domestic cricket is the backbone of Pakistan cricket and we need to continue to invest in it to make it a stronger and more attractive brand,” Nadeem Khan, the High Performance director, stated in a press launch. “In this relation, I am grateful to the BoG for supporting and approving the management’s recommendations. I am sure these new financial incentives will take our domestic cricket forward and assist the PCB in further reducing the gap with international cricket.
“The retainers and match charges have been elevated to encourage and encourage cricketers to work tougher around the yr to take care of the required and anticipated ranges of health and type, which varieties the premise of retaining locations in the contract checklist. Besides, the brand new incentives will even encourage them to offer desire to our match over international leagues. Needless to remind everybody, PCB domestic occasions are a pathway to choice in the nationwide facet.”
In 2019, the PCB did away with its traditional regional and department team model and narrowed down the national pipeline into six associational teams representing all six provinces in the country. That resulted in over 120 players missing out on playing domestic cricket.
Currently, with six elite and six second XI teams, with each having 16 players, the number of active domestic players is 192. Earlier, it was over 300.
The PCB insisted that with its new financial model, a domestic player can earn way more than what he was earning previously. After the latest increment, if an A+ category player plays all matches in the season, including the finals, he could earn PKR 6.1 million. The corresponding figure for a D category player will be PKR 4.3 million.
Umar Farooq is ESPNcricinfo’s Pakistan correspondent