Lahore May 14, 2012: Pakistan Cricket Board announces the award of its Players Central Contracts for the 2013 Calendar year. For the second consecutive year the Players Retainership fee has been increased. The 2013 Central Contracts have raised the Retainership fee by 15 %. In the 2012 Central Contractthe same had been increased by 25%. It may be noted that the increases in player fees in 2012 was made after 3 years as the last increases were made in 2009 thus in the last two years a total increase of more than 40 % has been made. The Test Match fee for all categories has also been increased. PCB had also raised the players match fee for all formats by 10% in the 2012 Central Contract.
PCB 2013 Central Contract Players:
Players & Category
1. Misbah-ul-Haq - A
2. Mohammad Hafeez - A
3. Saeed Ajmal - A
4. Younis Khan - A
5. Shahid Afridi - A
6. Umar Gul - B
7. Umar Akmal - B
8. Azhar Ali - B
9. Asad Shafiq - B
10. Junaid Khan - B
11. Abdur Rehman - B
12. Shoaib Malik - B
13. Nasir Jamshed - B
14. Kamran Akmal - C
15. Mohammad Irfan - C
16. Imran Farhat - C
17. Taufeeq Umar - C
18. Aizaz Cheema - C
19. Adnan Akmal - C
20. Faisal Iqbal - C
21. Ahmed Shehzad - C
22. Sarfaraz Ahmed - Stipend
23. Wahab Riaz - Stipend
24. Rahat Ali - Stipend
25. Ehsan Adil - Stipend
26. Umar Amin - Stipend
27. Zulifqar Babar - Stipend
28. Asad Ali - Stipend
29. Harris Sohail - Stipend
30. Anwar Ali - Stipend
