Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq in top grade of PCB player contracts for 2015-16 season

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the award of its Players Central Contracts for the year 2015-16 (June 2015-July 2016) to 27 players in four categories. The bunch of players has proved their potential and talent to represent Pakistan across the three formats with their recent performances. The remunerations – both the monthly retainer as...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the award of its Players Central Contracts for the year 2015-16 (June 2015-July 2016) to 27 players in four categories. The bunch of players has proved their potential and talent to represent Pakistan across the three formats with their recent performances. The remunerations – both the monthly retainer as well as match fees – have been increased across the board along with restoring the win bonuses and performance incentives. The PCB had issued Player Central Contracts in June 2015 for the term January 1 to June 30, 2015. This was done to better align the Central Contract Term with the Cricket Season as well as the financial year. READ: Wasim Akram enthusiastic about Pakistan’s prospective Twenty20 league

According to a media release from the cricket board, at the time of issuing the contracts PCB had informed that the PCB Management and the Pakistani Players will be holding negotiations to further improve the existing central contract draft. After detailed and inclusive negotiations between the PCB management and the representatives of the Pakistan players, national Test and ODI captains Misbah-ul-Haq, Azhar Ali, and Team Pakistan Mushtaq Ahmed, the following was agreed upon between the PCB management and Pakistan national cricketers:

• A Detailed financial Formula was agreed for the next three years (July 1, 2015-June 30, 2018). While the agreed financial formula has been agreed for three years PCB will awardfresh contracts for each year of the three year term. READ: West Indies tour of Sri Lanka 2015: Itinerary revealed

• Test, ODI, & T20I fees were agreed with increases for the next 3 years (July 1, 2015-June 30, 2018).

Here are the players list:

Category ‘A’ (6): Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan.

Category ‘B’ (8): Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Junaid Khan, Rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah.

Category ‘C’ (8): Anwar Ali, Fawad Alam, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaan Masood, Umar Akmal

Category ‘D’ (5): Babar Azam, Sami Aslam, Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Amin, Zulfiqar Babar.

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