The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon decided to provide one-time monetary assistance to the country’s cricketers at the different levels before the Eid-ul-Fitr, report agencies.
The BCB has already provided one-time monetary support to male and female cricketers apart from continuing the full salary of the other contracted cricketers, including the Under-19 World Cup-winning team.
This time the BCB would provide the monetary assistance on a larger scale as they would include the male and the female cricketers of the first division, second division and third division.
According to BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury the number of the players might be more than 1500, who is out of the monthly contract of the board.
“Our president gave us the directive to aid the cricketers of the country including first division, second division and third division. The amount of the aid might be limited but we’ll give it before Eid. We are working on this,” Nizamuddin was quoted in BSS on Saturday.
“The male cricketers who are out of the contract at different levels will get this assistance while in the case of female cricketers, all contracted and non-contracted female players will get this money.”
The BCB CEO, however, couldn’t say exactly what amount cricketers could get but said there is a possibility that the highest amount could be Tk 10000 while the lowest might be Tk. 5000. We are working on it. There is a different opinion indeed.
The amount of a first division player and second division player could be the same,” he added.
