PCB announces up to 100% increase in women players’ match fee. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday a 100% rise in the match fee for players involved in an ODI match (both playing and non-playing).
According to the board, there is a 50% rise in match fees for players in a T20I match (both playing and non-playing).
IT also disclosed a new list of players that were awarded the central contract. Anoosha Nasir, Eyman Fatima, and Shawaal Zulfiqar, all uncapped, are among the four players given core contracts for the first time. Umm-e-Hani, who made her debut against Ireland last year, is the fourth player to sign her first central contract.
As with last year, 20 players were handed central contracts, which are separated into four categories: A, B, C, and D, with D being an emerging category.
As PCB announces up to 100% increase in women players’ match fee, the contract will last for 23 months, from 1 August 2023 to 30 June 2025.
After a year, the players’ performances will be evaluated. The contracts were inked by 19 players in Karachi during the South Africa series camp.
The deal was signed in Lahore by Eyman Fatima, who is not playing in the white-ball series against South Africa.
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Captain Nida Dar and veteran Bismah Maroof have been retained in the A category, representing a 19% increase in their retainers.
Sidra Amin, who is now second in the ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 run-getters table with 535 runs from nine matches, has moved up to the A division from the C.
Four players are in the B group, which has seen a 32% increase in player retainers. Muneeba Ali has been promoted from the C to B category after scoring a century in this year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
Fast bowler Fatima Sana, who captained Pakistan’s emerging women’s side in this year’s ACC Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023, and left-arm spinner Nashra Sundhu have been retained in the B category. Aliya Riaz has been relegated from category A to category B.
Sidra Nawaz, the wicketkeeper-batter, has retained her position in the C category, while spinners Ghulam Fatima and Sadia Iqbal have been promoted from the D category to the C category. Diana Baig, who missed much of the last year due to a shoulder ailment and then a finger injury, has been downgraded to the C category from the B category. Omaima Sohail was moved to the C category from the B category in last year’s central contracts list. The C category has seen a 19% rise in player retention.
The D category, also known as the emerging category, features a total of eight players. Leg-spinner Tuba Hassan and right-handed batter Sadaf Shamas have retained their spots in the category which will see them register a 21 per cent increase in their retainers. Left-arm spinner Anoosha Nasir, right-handed batters Eyman Fatima and Shawaal Zulfiqar, all of whom represented Pakistan U19 in the inaugural ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup this year, have earned their maiden contracts. Wicketkeeper-batter Najiha Alvi and off-spinner Umm-e-Hani, both of whom represented Pakistan emerging team in ACC Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup, are also part of D category. Syeda Aroob Shah, who captained Pakistan U19 in ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup, makes a comeback in central contract after missing out last year.
Anam Amin, Gull Feroza, Iram Javed, Javeria Khan and Kainat Imtiaz are the five players who have failed to retain this year’s central contract. All five players have been awarded the first-ever 11-month domestic contracts. Meanwhile, Ayesha Naseem, who retired from international cricket, is the sixth player to be left out from the contract.
Women’s Central Contracts (1 August 2023 to 30 June 2025):
Category A (3) –Bismah Maroof, Nida Dar and Sidra Amin
Category B (4) – Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Muneeba Ali and Nashra Sundhu
Category C (5) – Diana Baig, Ghulam Fatima, Omaima Sohail, Sadia Iqbal and Sidra Nawaz
Category D (8) – Anoosha Nasir, Eyman Fatima, Najiha Alvi, Sadaf Shamas, Shawaal Zulfiqar, Syeda Aroob Shah, Tuba Hassan and Umm-e-Hani
