New pay structure to benefit vast majority of players: Nadeem Khan.

The Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) Director High Performance, Nadeem Khan, on Monday said that the new pay structure for domestic tournaments would benefit 88 per cent of the players.

"We have increased salaries, although match fee has slightly been slashed but 88 per cent of the players will benefit from the new structure" Nadeem told reporters in an online session.

Nadeem said that the new structure will take into account performances and experience, which will provide an added incentive to those in the lower categories.

Those in the D category will face some loss but they have the chance to perform this season and rise to other categories. It's an incentive for juniors and because it is performance-based, you will see juniors in higher categories who performed well last season.

'The basic purpose of the new pay structure is that previously both juniors and seniors were getting Rs50,000 each, which does not happen in any other field. In the new package, there are incentives for players as match numbers will increase and this will overcome the deficit which players could have faced due to slightly reduced match fee,' Nadeem said.

"In the current system if you combine salary and match fee then players will earn substantially higher on annual basis,' Nadeem clarified.

Furthermore, Nadeem detailed the changes made to club level cricket and how they would benefit game at the grassroots.

'We have formed three categories of clubs. It will automatically eliminate bogus clubs. We are giving playing rights under easy conditions so a club which wants to play will get registration and those clubs which want voting rights will face tough conditions,' said Nadeem.

'They have to have at least one level-I coach and meet some other expenses. If you have a qualified coach so you can also run an...

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