Living as much as its promise of giving highest precedence to Test cricket, the BCCI has determined to offer an incentive of Rs 45 lakh per recreation to all those that would play 75 per cent or extra of the scheduled red-ball video games in a selected season, Board secretary Jay Shah mentioned on Saturday. A Test participant, who seems in a doable 10 Tests in a season will likely be richer by a whopping Rs 4.50 crore as incentive aside from a doable Rs 1.5 crore (15 lakh per recreation) in traditional match price.

Veteran cricketers Cheteshwar Pujara and Umesh Yadav, who didn’t get a contract this 12 months, will likely be paid their “incentive” for the earlier season.

The prime cricketers additionally get an assured retainer price from their annual central contracts.

BCCI Secretary Jay Shah mentioned the board will spend round Rs 45 crore for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.

“With the scheme, the players will earn even more than the IPL contract,. This show IPL is important but bilateral Test cricket is also very important. The total outflow will be Rs 45 crore,” mentioned Shah throughout interplay with choose group of journalists right here. In a submit on X, Shah added:”I am pleased to announce the initiation of the ‘Test Cricket Incentive Scheme’ for Senior Men, a step aimed at providing financial growth and stability to our esteemed athletes.

“Commencing from the 2022-23 season, the ‘Test Cricket Incentive Scheme’ will function an extra reward construction on prime of the prevailing match price for Test matches, set at Rs 15 lakh,” he further stated.

The incentives will be retrospective and would factor in players, who were part of Test cricket during the 2022-23 season.

How the math works

To put things in perspective, one can take the example of Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, who has appeared in all 10 Tests (World Test Championship final, 2 vs West Indies, 2 vs SA, 5 vs England) during the 2023-24 season.

Rohit will get Rs 1.5 core (Rs 15 lakhx10) in usual match fee and for giving priority to Test cricket, he will get another Rs 4.5 crore (RS 45 lakhx10).

Hence, his earnings from Test cricket alone would stand at Rs six crore.

Add to it, he has an annual retainership of Rs seven crore per season, which takes his earnings to Rs 13 crore.

This obviously excludes his match fees for playing ODIs (Rs 8 lakh per game) and T20Is (Rs 4 lakh per game) in a season.

The BCCI, in its explainer, has taken an average of nine Tests in a season. If someone has played less than 50 per cent of the games (4 or less in this case), then he will only get a standard match fee of Rs 15 lakh (for being in playing XI) and half that amount for reserves.

However, the moment he plays between 50 to 75 per cent of the games (five to six in case the base figure is nine), then there would be an additional match fee incentive of Rs 30 lakh per game.

So a player, who has played six Tests in a season, would get Rs 90 lakh as existing match fee (Rs 15×6) and incentive of Rs 1.8 crore (Rs 30×6), which takes his match fee plus incentives to Rs 2.70 crore.