India and Pakistan are the two most popular ꦰcricket playing nations which produced a plethora of stars in their rich cricketing heritage.
The respective boards, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), look after the monetary issues of its pl💛ayers.
Since the era of globalisation, BCCI has gone several notches higher to become the richest and the most powerful board in the wor๊ld.
BCCI’s golden hen, the Indian Premier League (IPL), has made it one of the most influential private institutions in the world.
Therefore, it is only obvious that it takes good care of its international cricke✃ters financially. Today, let us look at the salaries of the centrally contracted players of the two boards.
The PCB distributes remuneration to the international players through three categories, while the BCCI offers four lucrative cat🍎egories based on several criteria.
Categories of Centrally contracted players in PCB
The A Category players receive a monthly salary of 1.1 Million PKR (USD 6,798), which roughly makes it an annual income of 13.2 Million PK♔R (USD 81,576) for its players.
In the B Category, centrally contracted crickete🌄rs earn about 750,000 PKR (USD 4,635) monthly, i.e., 9 Million PKR (USD 55,627) annuall🦩y.
The C Category cricketers earn up to 550,000🦩 PKR (USD 3,400) monthly, which turns out to be 6.6 Million PKR (USD 40,793) annually.
Categories of Centrally contracted players in PCB
For the Indian cricketer, cricketers under Grade C contract earn up to INR 1 crore (USD 132,476) annua🅰lly while Grade B🦋 players earn INR 3 crore (USD 397,430) per year.
However, the most financially lucrative contracts are bagged by Grade A+ and A cricketers, who get pa🐎id a whopping annual amount of INR 7 crore (USD 927,336) and INR 5 crore (USD 662,383), respectively.
Different categories of the two boards and their annual retainerships (A.R.):
PCB (for 2020-2021)
Grade A: Babar Azam, A��zha🔴r Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi (A.R: 81,576)
Grade B: Asad Shafiq, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Abbas, Shadab✃ Khan, Abid Ali, Mohammad Rizwan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shan Masood, Yasir Shah (A.R: 55,627ꦉ)
Grade C: Fakhar Zaman, Imad🍬 Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, Naseem Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Usman Shinwari (A.R: 40,793𝔉)
BCCI (for 2019-2021)
Grade A+: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah (A🉐.R: 927,336)
Grade A: Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kuᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammad Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant (A.R: 662,383)
Grade B: Wr⛎iddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pan🐎dya, Mayank Agarwal (A.R: 397,430)
Grade C: Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manis🥀h Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Th🌠akur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar (A.R: 132,476)
