The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has drastically reduced matches for players participating in the next T20 National Cup. The players in the tournament will be paid the 10,000 PKR PKR matches (approximately US $ 35), a 75% drop of the latest edition of the same tournament, where players were paid 40,000 PKR matches rates.
Since then, the PCB has embarked on expensive but necessary stadium updates, hired, and shortly after, foreign coaches in expensive contracts, as well as five mentors in PKR 5 million per month each, as well as organizing a national tournament of one day that increased the money from the prize to the participants ten times.
However, a PCB official told Espncricinfo that the decision to reduce the rates of the parties so drastically for the T20 National Cup was not the result of financial concerns. On the other hand, the PCB feels that the players’ income opportunities during the season have increased with more tournaments in the national calendar, including the T20 Champions Cup, which took place in December 2024 (but with only five teams).
The Champions Cup format of five elite players teams is replicated both in a 50 and first class tournament. With several players also used by an apartment (for tournaments such as the president’s trophy) that pays them a monthly salary, the Board believes that the fall in the rates of the matches did not amount to a general fall in their profits.
The T20 National Cup begins on March 14, with 39 games in three cities: Faisalabad, Lahore and Finen. The final will take place in Faisalabad on March 27. Several Main International Cricket players of Pakistan will not be able to appear, and the national side went to New Zealand for five T20 and three hate.
