BCCI Releases Base Pay Grade List of Cricketers for IPL 4 Player Auctions

Even as the BCCI remains undecided on the issue of Kochi’s participation as the eighth IPL 4 team, it has released the list of cricketers who will be vying for a lucrative Twenty20 contract in the coming IPL 4 season.
     The BCCI has work out the salary issue and has devised the base pay for cricketers according to their grade.

The five brackets of base price are as follows:

1^st grade: Rs 1.84 crore

( Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh )

2^nd grade: Rs 1.3 crore

( Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan )

 3^rd grade: Rs 92 lakh

( Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar )

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4^th grade: Rs 46 lakh

 ( domestic cricketer, cricketers who represented India since 2005 - list includes Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda )

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5th grade: Rs 23 lakh

( Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Sridharan Sriram, etc. )

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