Karachi, Jul 8 (PTI) Pakistan’s centrally-contracted cricketers are anticipated to get huge hikes, whereas the home gamers will see a drop of their earnings for the 2025-26 season.
A well-placed supply within the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) mentioned the current PKR 18.30 billion finances accepted by the Board of Governors contains PKR 1,173.49 million for the Pakistan workforce’s centrally-contracted gamers and retainers, which is a 37 per cent improve.
The supply added that the checklist of gamers who will get these contracts may even be elevated from 25 to 30 this fiscal 12 months.
This even supposing within the final fiscal interval, Pakistan’s efficiency in all codecs has been disappointing. They did not qualify for the knockout levels of the ICC T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy at residence.
In Check cricket, Pakistan was whipped 0-2 by Bangladesh at residence and performed a 1-1 draw at residence in opposition to the West Indies.
The supply mentioned that the finances for the contracts awarded to home gamers had been diminished by almost 34 per cent — from PKR 684 million to PKR 450 million.
PCB has revamped its home season by lowering the variety of groups within the premier first-class competitors, Quaid Trophy, to eight and have additionally scrapped the much-hyped Champions Cup occasions, which had been launched final 12 months.
PCB has elevated the finances for girls’s cricket with the variety of centrally-contracted gamers set to go up from 16 to 24, with their collective retainer quantity rising by 121 per cent to PKR 69 million.
The ladies’s home contracts finances has been barely elevated by 4 per cent, now totalling PKR 37.2 million.
The board has additionally determined to take over the administration of 12 first-class grounds, taking care of their upkeep and pitch preparation, which will probably be overseen by the workers paid by the PCB. The board has allotted PKR 93.6 million for this initiative.
PCB will spend an extra PKR six billion on finishing the infrastructure improvement at three main stadiums — Gaddafi Stadium (Lahore), Nationwide Stadium (Karachi), and Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium — on which the board had already allotted round PKR 18 billion within the final fiscal 12 months finances.
