MUMBAI: Ranji Trophy players have not received match fees ranging from Rs 1.2-1.5 million per season for the last two years because the Committee of Administrators (CoA) running the BCCI and some state units cannot see eye-to-eye on implementing reforms suggested by the Supreme Court.
A new payment plan being worked on by the CoA is also reason for the delay, the Indian Express reports.
According to the BCCI’s income distribution formula, 26% of the revenue goes to players, which includes 13% for international stars, 10.6% for domestic players, and the remaining for women and junior cricketers. The Indian Express report said that 25 teams across the country to which the newspaper had spoken to had not received the payment.
“There has been no general body meeting since the time CoA took charge. So the accounts have not been cleared and thus there is no clarity about what the players should be getting,” an official is quoted as saying in the report.
“The players have not received money from the Board. I have been told players will receive their full payment once the AGM (annual general meeting) takes place. But we don’t know when the AGM will happen. As far as MCA is concerned we have paid our players what we owe them but we are yet to receive the Board’s money,” Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) joint secretary Unmesh Khanvilkar told the newspaper.
