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BCCI to pay selectors 'match fee'

Posted on Oct 25, 2007 at 13:08 | Updated Oct 25, 2007 at 13:37 Comment Comments Email Email Print Print
Tags: cricket, India, BCCI

New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to pay selectors a "match fee" in a bid to professionalise its system,

The post of the selectors was honorary till now but the BCCI Finance Committee has cleared a proposal to pay each of the five selectors Rs 50,000 per Test in addition to a daily allowance of Rs 15,000 taking their total earning from a Test to Rs1,25,000.

For One-Day matches, the fee will be Rs 65,000. This comes as a step to professionalise the selection system in India and will be introduced from next month.

The proposal is expected to be ratified by the BCCI's Working Committee soon.

Till now the selectors, who attend Tests and ODIs at home, are being paid only a daily allowance.

When the Indian team goes on a tour only one selector goes with the team.

However, there is no proposal to scrap the zonal system which many former players and experts have criticised.

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