The compensation promised to India’s first-class players after the 2020 Ranji Trophy season stood cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to be disbursed as state items have nonetheless not despatched within the requisite particulars, BCCI Treasurer Arun Dhumal informed PTI on Monday.
In a current article within the UK’s ‘Telegraph’ newspaper, it got here to mild that the BCCI is yet to share the T20 World Cup runners-up prize cash of USD 550,000 with the Indian ladies’s group. The Board responded by promising to ship this week.
The developments additionally introduced into focus the inordinate delay in players’ funds throughout the board, regardless of gender. The Ranji Trophy compensation bundle is one other occasion of delay and devising an appropriate system for every one is not as simple and linear, Dhumal admitted.
“We have to discuss with states because they have to tell us who would have played, how many matches, who would have been in reserves. None of the states have sent any proposal for the compensation package,” Dhumal stated.
During this version of Indian Premier League (IPL 2021), there have been 73 uncapped Indian home players throughout eight groups (together with Basil Thampi and Deepak Hooda, who’ve been part of the Indian group). These players had contracts starting from Rs 20 lakh to almost Rs 10 crore (Krishnappa Gowtham).
However, there are round 700 others, who haven’t got IPL contracts and make something between Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh in a full home season with most earnings coming from Ranji Trophy the place they get a match payment of Rs 1.40 lakh.
“The treasurer is right. The BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has announced the compensation but how do you determine which are the players who would play 8 games, or 10 games in a season? The reserve players get half, so how do you compute that? “You cannot simply give a flat quantity to each participant. Giving a lump sum to states is an possibility however how do you monitor the states?” requested a former BCCI official and state unit veteran.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant closure of BCCI headquarters has led to delays however it’s of little comfort to the home players as most of them are yet to obtain the Gross Revenue Share (GRS) for the previous few seasons.
BCCI has at all times allotted a share from its TV broadcast income to the home cricketers and it’s usually paid in September after the annual accounts are settled.
According to Dhumal, the GRS of home cricketers has been saved pending for the reason that 2016-17 season. “We pay the GRS amounts after the accounts are settled. But I must tell you that since 2016-17, when the Committee of Administrators (CoA) was in operation, GRS has not been cleared.”
However, Dhumal stated that this 12 months’s Vijay Hazare and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy funds (Rs 35,000 per match) have been cleared. “I can also confirm that payments for the Vijay Hazare and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy have also been disbursed,” Dhumal knowledgeable.
He then defined how the funds are disbursed. “It’s the state associations which increase the bill of the match charges of their players as per the variety of video games they’ve performed or been a part of the collection. Verification a part of the info (matches performed) is finished by the states.
“The GST also needs to be computed. If the states delay in sending the invoices, that at times also leads to delay in payments. Some states, immediately after the end of the season, send us the invoice with all due diligence and their players immediately receive payments,” stated Dhumal.
The senior Indian players obtained their annual retainer charges after almost one 12 months, motive being the delay in signing the contracts. “The delay in payment of central contracts was two fold. The offices were closed and also it took time during lockdown to get the players to sign the contract document,” Dhumal stated.
