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Amid the speculative chatter on big-picture modifications within the Indian cricket staff, the Board Of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) is reportedly trying to introduce variable pay for gamers which might additionally enable them to deduct cash if efficiency is not on top of things. The Indian board, within the wake of the latest leads to Check assignments towards New Zealand and Australia, is trying to go for a extra corporate-like construction the place the gamers may each be rewarded and penalised in financial kind based mostly on their performances.
As a recent system, with the arrival of BCCI’s new secretary and treasurer, Devajit Saikia and Prabhtej Singh Bhatia respectively, begins to happen, many modifications will be anticipated in the best way the BCCI features and handles its gamers. A type of modifications is introducing performance-based pay.
“It was one of the suggestions given that players should be held accountable and if their performance is deemed not fit as per expectations, they should face variable pay-cuts,” the Indian Categorical quoted a supply as saying.
One performance-based system is already in place, which might see gamers that includes within the taking part in XI of greater than 50 p.c of Assessments in a season since 2022-23 to obtain an incentive of Rs 30 lakh per recreation. A participant can earn Rs 45 lakh per recreation if participated in no less than 75 p.c of matches in a season. The system was launched to make gamers prioritise Check cricket or white-ball codecs.
The report within the paper additionally claims that the staff administration feels gamers do not worth Check cricket as a lot as they need to, with the longest format nonetheless being handled casually whilethe focus stays to excel in white-ball cricket.
“There was discussion whether the current players were a bit indifferent when India loses a Test match. The team management understands the value of Test cricket but many players don’t give too much importance to it,” the report quoted a supply as saying.
BCCI has been urged by the Indian staff administration to deal with this problem and make sure the subsequent technology of gamers put the worth of a Check cap over white-ball profession.
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