In the clause,mentioned in this article, it says that player should have played 3 tests AND 10 ODIs to qualify for the selection of contracts.
It is 3 tests OR 10 ODIs according to Ratnakar Shetty, the joint secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
"to make it to the contracted players' list, a cricketer should have represented the country in at least 3 Tests or 10 ODIs. "That's the minimum qualification needed for making the cut,"]
RE:Clarifications.
by Chandan on Jun 27, 2004 11:54 AM
This is the URL in rediff.com where it was mentioned that qualification criteria is: 3 tests OR 10 ODIs:
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/jun/22bcci.htm
I'm disappointed not to have received a confirmation from rediff.
players fees reduction in both test as well as in odi is a curse to them. it's a great honour to represent the country being the part of team ,out of more than 100 crore population.Their dedication , effort and determination needs to be admired by paying some extra facilities/incentives rather than cutting down the fees. comparing to other cricket boards, BCCI is much more rich and spending very less amount of money for cricket development in different stages.
Board shouldn't think about the extra earnings of players as it's not the part of their role. Board Officials or former players should not compare what they were earning during their period and the same in case of current player. If it's so, then it's only jealousness.And it's very unfair. Board should make a plan of distributing money earned by cricket in different form among the players, officials and must have a specified budget for the development of cricket from grass root level. Hope the above is clear to our board adminstration.
Minimum eligibility for the contract: 3 Tests and 10 ODIs (player should have played in the game, and not just been a member of the squad).
So, how will a new player ever be inducted into the contracted 20. BCCI is already paying for these 20 players and they will always select from these 20. How will a new player play 3 tests and 10 ODIs to become eligible for contracts as that is the entry criteria itslef. Confusing or chaos??
This is great. Now that performance will be the deciding factor, the future of Indian cricket looks positive, professional & bright. Now it needs to be seen how will the players be graded for category A,B & C. Category A should be easy to guess, but interesting is category B & C.
Contracts look like catalysts to the players motivation, and all in all, it seems to be a good step.
Hope that selectors keep aside the grades & retainership fees, when selecting players. I am not saying anything poor of the currently identified players... but this will need to be taken care of while selecting fresh players... :))
The cricket has changed to the extend that we have TEST specialists and ONEDAY specialists like Mohammed Kaif, Rohan Gavaskar, Akash Chopra, Hemang badani.. Qualiification may become problem in such cases... Certain number of one dayers should be an equivalent of test matches (say, 3 ODI = 1 test) and vice versa. This would make the system more reasonable to accomodate specialists!
