Top players may get `5cr a year

New Delhi: The Committee of Administrators received a proposal to consider a fivefold hike in the Central Contracts of Indian players with an aim to reaffirm Test cricket’s top status among the GenNext who are certainly enamoured by the IPL riches. A prominent personality, who has closely worked with the Lodha Committee on the constitutional and structural reforms in the BCCI, has sent a note to the COA with suggestions that the top grade of the Central Contracts be revised from the current `1 crore to `5 crore. As of now, the Grade A players get `1 crore while Grade B and C players get a yearly remuneration of `60 and `35 lakh respectively excluding their match fees which is `15 lakh for the first XI men in the five-day games. Some of the players like Cheteshwar Pujara or Ishant Sharma — big stars in their own rights — have gone unsold at the IPL auctions.