Pakistani domestic cricketers get paid $ 50 per match

[Xuhaib]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3EEK5hnbQg&feature=related

Watch Waqar Younis and Saleem Altaf discuss it at 23 minute mark.

Simply shocking and disgusting. This means if a player gets to play 3 matches per month he makes only $150 HELL!!! even my dad's chauffeur makes more then $ 150, no wonder boys from middle class households are not taking up cricket as a profession these days.

 

[silentstriker]

Ridiculous. Only recently have Indian domestic cricketers started making very good wages. I think they make Rs.80,000 per match.

 

[Perm]

When I'm working I make over $200 a day. Simply shocking.

 

[silentstriker]

When I'm working I make over $200 a day. Simply shocking.

It's not directly comparable due to the differences in purchasing power, but you're absolutely right that it is ridiculous still.

 

[Sanz]

Old one. Watched it long back. No wonder no Pakistani cricketer present or past wants to be associated with PCB.

Aquib Javed -Batta coach ( aka Bowling coach, suspect action)

 

[Craig]

It's not directly comparable due to the differences in purchasing power, but you're absolutely right that it is ridiculous still.

So my plane lands in Lahore and I'm in the City Centre and I take $50 out of my wallet, where would or how long would it last for?

 

[Sanz]

So my plane lands in Lahore and I'm in the City Centre and I take $50 out of my wallet, where would or how long would it last for?

Depends. If you are a generous bloke and want to maintain the same living standard like your home country, it will end up before you get out of the plane(You will end up spending that money shopping in Sky Mall or making phone calls from the plane itself).


If you are not so generous and can stay in any 3rd world style hotel, then I would say 50 USD may last about a week.

 

[roseboy64]

So 50 USD then. How does that translate to Pakistani dollars? Nothing compared to the WI though mind you

 

[Sanz]

So 50 USD then. How does that translate to Pakistani dollars? Nothing compared to the WI though mind you

Ever Heard about Zimbabwean Dollars ?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/129010?GT1=43002

 

[Xuhaib]

Depends. If you are a generous bloke and want to maintain the same living standard like your home country, it will end up before you get out of the plane(You will end up spending that money shopping in Sky Mall or making phone calls from the plane itself).


If you are not so generous and can stay in any 3rd world style hotel, then I would say 50 USD may last about a week.

Yup. Only if you are very cheap stingy bastard will it last for a week.

I would say 3 day max.

 

[Richard]

Can't say I'm terribly surprised, but it's a disappointment, obviously.

Wonder what the odds are of something being done by someone to improve matters... any time soon?

 

[roseboy64]

Ever Heard about Zimbabwean Dollars ?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/129010?GT1=43002

Was working off them not getting paid.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Wonder what the odds are of something being done by someone to improve matters... any time soon?

There's this fantastic employment scheme in progress called the Indian Cricket League, or so I've heard.

 

[Beleg]

Yup. Only if you are very cheap stingy bastard will it last for a week.

I would say 3 day max.

50 bucks is 3000+ rupees. a middle class single man can live off that easily for a week and still have change to spare.

 

[Craig]

50 bucks is 3000+ rupees. a middle class single man can live off that easily for a week and still have change to spare.

So how much would a upper class single man could survive off easily?

 

[Richard]

There's this fantastic employment scheme in progress called the Indian Cricket League, or so I've heard.

Average Pakistani domestic players aren't going to get signed-up for that though, are they?

 

[CrazY GirL]

simply pathetic...pcb needs to get a life...paying all the money to useless people and those who deserve dont get anything

 

[Xuhaib]

A few days back I heard a rumor that the board chairman paid $ 150,000 duty on his foreign imported BMW, and I am sure all that money wasn't paid from his own pocket.