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Indian cricketers differ on
gradation, contracts stalled
NEW DELHI: The drama and suspense surrounding the players' contracts
continues, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India – on the
request of the players – deciding to defer the announcement of the
list of eligible players till after the Asia Cup, as the involved
players are believed to be not completely happy with the deal.
It is understood that the process came to a halt following lack of
consensus among the players, who were not in favour of the gradation
being determined on merit by the BCCI's screening committee.
Instead, they would prefer that it was done on seniority, in terms
of the number of Tests and one-dayers played.
It may be recalled that the contract would be graded in three
categories -- A, B and C. Players in Grade A would be paid Rs 60lakh
annually, Grade B would get Rs 30 lakh and Grade C Rs 15 lakh.
It appears that the players who fall in Grade B – which is likely to
have the largest representation – are unhappy with the arrangement
since the monetary difference between the two grades is quite big.
Also, the issue of the payments for the reserve players being
reduced to 50 per cent of the match fees, from 90 per cent, has not
gone down well with the cricketers. BCCI had originally scheduled
the announcement for Friday, but Secretary SK Nair, talking to the
Hindustan Times from Thiruvananthapuram, said that the cricketers
wanted more details to be worked out on some of the clauses of the
contract draft and more time.
"There is an attempt from both the sides (the players and BCCI) to
reach an acceptable agreement," Nair said. "The players want some
more details to be worked out in some of the clauses and that may
take some time." While Nair would not like to be drawn into exactly
what these details were, he said there should be no "ill feeling"
later.
Nair would not accept that the players were unhappy with some
clauses and asserted: "They understand the situation, and know that
we are making an honest attempt to create the contract system. We
will need more time to work things out. However, nothing will be
done during the Asia Cup, since we do not want to distract the
players.
"There is time between the Asia Cup and our next international
engagement and hopefully we will be able to sort this out then."
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