Pakistan has increased 21 Central Contract cricketers’ salaries of about 15% as Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal and Younis Khan was succeeded to maintain their positions in Category A. As Umar Akmal and Umar Gul fall into Category B due to their uninspiring performances in the last year.
Not only the increase in monthly is centrally rise but but also 10 percent increase in match fees is assured this year. Former captain of national team and batsman Younis Khan demoted to group ‘B while new pacer Junaid Khan successfully reached in category ‘A’ after considering the fresh list of central contracts but unfortunately Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik dropped from the central contract.
Recent monthly salaries of Pakistani cricketers according to Central Contract 2014, with categories are as follows:
Category A (Rs 449, 218 per month): Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Junaid Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Ajmal
Category B (Rs 314,452): Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Gul, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal
Category C (Rs 179,687): Azhar Ali, Khurram Manzoor, Asad Shafiq, Abdul Rehman, Adnan Akmal, Nasir Jamshed
Category D (Rs 89,843) : Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Sharjeel Khan, Fawad Alam, Bilawal Bhatti, Ehsan Adil, Wahab Riaz, Raza Hasan, Mohammad Irfan, Umar Amin, Rahat Ali, Shaan Masood, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Talha, Anwar Ali, Zulfiqar Babar.