The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) issued the checklist of centrally contracted women cricketers for the 2020-2021 season on May 19. While the likes of Richa Ghosh (new entrant) and Shafali Verma (promoted from Grade C to B) have been rewarded for good performances, Veda Krishnamurthy, Ekta Bisht, Anuja Patil and D. Hemlatha missed out.
A report has are available The Telegraph (UK) that the 4 cricketers who didn’t make the lower within the newest contracts ‘will not be paid for almost eight months of employment’. The BCCI is not too happy with the ‘assumptions’ made whereas reporting on the destiny of the 4 gamers who didn’t get contracts within the new checklist for the 2020-2021 season.
Speaking to information company ANI, a senior BCCI official stated the declare that 4 women gamers who misplaced their central contract would not be paid for nearly eight months of employment was completely false. “This is completely false. Every participant is paid in accordance with the phrases of the contract with the BCCI. The funds have been made for the contracted interval. The declare made within the story basically assumes {that a} contract existed for nearly eight months for which they’d not be paid. This is wrong, and I can solely conclude that that is on the again of incorrect recommendation.
“If a contract ended in September 2020 and the payments have been made in relation to that contract, it is wrong to imply otherwise,” the official defined.
The report comes shut on the heels of a report on the women gamers nonetheless not getting their prize cash from the 2020 T20 World Cup runners-up efficiency. The BCCI official says whereas the board has tightened the system additional, points raised by gamers are swiftly answered by the finance division.
“These are tough occasions and now we have been working beneath tremendously tough situations and I do not imply this as a justification. We have not been as environment friendly as we’d have preferred to be and of course there have been errors and I’m not saying that there will likely be no errors sooner or later as nicely. No organisation is with out its share of errors and with each error that slips via our system, our endeavour is to tighten the system additional, which now we have achieved even now. The finance division swiftly addresses all points which might be raised by gamers and there’s no question or name for help by any participant that goes unanswered.
“I can understand the agony of losing out on a contract as well and I understand the place from where this is emanating since these are difficult times for everyone and we at the BCCI office have also not remained untouched with personal grief, tragedies and difficulties,” the official stated.
On being requested whether or not such criticism is warranted and whether or not it hurts regardless that the BCCI is seeking to take women’s cricket to the following degree and lately introduced the maiden day-night Test for Mithali Raj’s group towards Australia, the official stated there may be ‘no negativity’ that’s felt right here. “Look, any data that helps us course-correct is welcome. If not a narrative, a participant would have despatched us a reminder. Our gamers know that there is no such thing as a ill-intent behind any oversight they usually know that paisa to milega hello har haal mein (we’ll get the cash). This vertical got here beneath the purview of a General Manager who not works with us and perhaps he took issues calmly in his previous few months with us, however from the purpose of view of the organisation, this could not have occurred in any case.
“It’s just that after a few years on the job, one tends to see through the noise and identifies where the particular memo is coming from, that’s all. So there is absolutely no negativity that’s felt here. They are just doing their job and at times emotions run high, especially when there are personal setbacks or issues. It`s all part of the territory,” the official added.
