Mumbai: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly today batted for more raise in pay
structure of domestic cricketers after the BCCI gave a reasonable hike
recently.
In the recently announced contracts, the match day
fees of domestic cricketers have been hiked from Rs 10,000 per day to Rs
35,000.
I think that is very commendable from Rahul (Johri)
and the Board. And as he said I have been harping for it for the last
one-and-half years, increase the money for first class players. I would
still request him (Johri) to increase a bit more, because they are first
class players, a lot of them will not become Ajinkya Rahane's and Virat
Kohli's, Ganguly said at the India Today conclave here.
Jobs
are not very easy in modern day because times have changed. The culture
has changed and I will push him (Johri) for one more season when I meet
him and hopefully I can get it more for first class players, he added.
The left-handed batsman was speaking after BCCI CEO Rahul Johri said that the focus of the contracts was domestic cricketers.
So what the important thing, which you see in the Central contracts
that got announced recently was the focus on domestic cricket, because
that is the bed-rock and if you see till now a domestic cricketer who
used to play, used to get his actual compensation after one-and-half
years," Johri said.
"What has been done now, the match fees for
domestic cricketers per day has been raised from Rs 10,000 to Rs 35,000
and they don't have to wait for one-and-half years. They will get their
match fees after the games. Sourav is a great proponent of that and he
is pushing for it, he added.
PTI
