National cricket players to receive their long overdue salary

Kathmandu / Jan 3: National cricket players will get their salary that had been halted following an International Cricket Council ban on the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) over a dispute in electing its new leadership.

The ICC has agreed to provide two years of salary (2017 and 2018) to the players on the initiatives of the National Sports Council (NSC), said NSC’s member secretary Keshab Kumar Bista.

“We have initiated in this process. The ICC has agreed to this subject.

The ICC categorized players will get their salary within some weeks,” he informed. The ICC had banned the CAN in 2016 following its involvement in disputes over picking its new leadership.

The NSC will coordinate the salary distribution, said technical analyst for the national cricket team Raman Siwakoti.

The ICC categorized players in Group ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’, according to which the salary will be distributed. Group ‘A’ categorised players were entitled each to a monthly salary of Rs 35,000.

Likewise, players grouped ‘B’ were entitled to a monthly salary of Rs 25,000 each, and group ‘C’ categorised players a monthly salary of Rs 15,000 each. RSS