Pakistan cricketers are waiting for BPL payments

Pakistan cricketers are waiting for BPL payments

The Pakistani players who took part in the Bangladesh Premier League are still waiting for their dues to be cleared by the T20 Twenty tournament`s organisers.One of the players confirmed that still now, mejority of the players had only received 25 percent of the total amount. "We are waiting for something to happen. We have to look at our livelihood for the future there is nothing much we can do except to keep on reminding the Bangladesh Cricket Board and respective franchises to clear the dues,"

Another player said that the franchises were bound to clear the total dues of their overseas players 40 days after the complete of the BPL that ended on February 29 in Dhaka.

He said the foreign players were told by their franchises that as per their contractual obligations, they would get 25 percent payment before the start of the tournament, another 25 percent in the middle and the last after the event.


"What happened was that most of the foreign players with a few exceptions had got no payments at all until the fag end of the event and the 25 percent was only paid after the foreign players got together and held a meeting with a senior official of the BPL and conveyed their strong resentment over the delay in payments," the player recalled.
Pakistani players signed up for different franchises in the BPL for amounts ranging from USD 25,000 to USD 500,000.

The player conceded that some top stars had only agreed to play after getting 50 per cent of their payments before their matches.

"The good thing is that the international federation of players has also got into the matter and is in touch with the BCB and franchises to release the payments soon."