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Salary increased for cricketers

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Published: 15:10, 22 April 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Salary increased for cricketers

Sport Desk: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has increased salaries and match fees for the contractual cricketers.

The proposal was passed in the first board meeting of the current year on Saturday.

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan Papon made the disclosure on Saturday evening, after the board meeting was over.

He said salaries were increased 1.5 times for the cricketers under A plus category and from one lakh to 25,000 for other categories respectively.

The A plus category cricketers- Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al-Hasan and Tamim Iqbal will now get Tk 4 lakh each. Earlier they were getting Tk 2.5 lakh.

Salaries for A category cricketers have been made Tk 3 lakh from Tk 2 lakh.

The B category cricketers will get Tk 2 lakh, increased Tk 50,000 from Tk 1.5 lakh.

The cricketers under C category will get Tk 1.5 lakh and D category Tk 1 lakh while they were getting Tk 1 lakh and Tk 75,000 respectively.

Alongside, match fee for test cricket has been made Tk 3 lakh from Tk 2 lakh. The ODI match fee has been fixed Tk 2 lakh, making double. The T20 match fee was increased Tk 50,000. The T20 cricketers will now get Tk 125 lakh.


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