Virat Kohli gets huge pay hike as BCCI announces fresh contracts

Indian captain Virat Kohli got a hike as much as double the amount of he used to get last year as the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced fresh annual contracts on Wednesday.

The Committee of Administrators (COA) met in Mumbai and decided on the Annual Player Contracts for men cricketers, enrolled under the BCCI, for the period ending September 30, 2017.

“The Annual Retainer amounts were enhanced for all the categories and Grade A players will be paid Rs.2 crore per annum, Grade B will be paid Rs.1 crore per annum and Grade C will be paid Rs.50 lakh per annum, which is double the amounts paid in the earlier years,” the BCCI said in a statement.

The board further added that the match fee hike will be effective from October 1, 2016 onwards.

The cricketers will get an additional amount in respect to the format of the game they play. BCCI has also stated that Rs.15 lakh per Test, Rs.6 lakh per ODI and Rs.3 lakh for T20Is will be paid to the cricketers under the contract.

Here`s how the pay hike looks like for cricketers from different grades:  

Grade A: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay.

Grade B: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuvraj Singh.

Grade C: Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Amit Mishra, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Hardik Pandya, Ashish Nehra, Kedar Jadhav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Parthiv Patel, Jayant Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Rishabh Pant.

Source: The Statesman