Akmal gets Category A contract despite bad performance


ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board has awarded struggling wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal the highest category in player contracts.

Akmal is among seven players named in category A along with one-day and twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi, test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul and Shoaib Akhtar.

PCB says in a statement that contracts run until the end of June. Each of the contracted players will be given a monthly salary of 250,000 rupees ($2,950).

Akmal’s wicketkeeping has already cost Pakistan dearly in the World Cup. He dropped New Zealand’s Ross Taylor on 0 and 4 before the Kiwi batsman went on to hammer a career-best 131 on Tuesday.

Kamran’s younger brother Umar Akmal, opening batsman Mohammad Hafeez, spinners Abdur Rehman and Saeed Ajmal and fast bowler Wahab Riaz were named in category B which attracts a monthly salary of 175,000 rupees ($2,050).

Category C —in which players are paid monthly salary of 100,000 rupees ($1,200) —includes test opener Taufiq Umar, middle order batsmen Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali, opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran’s youngest brother Adnan and fast bowlers Tanvir Ahmed and Junaid Khan.

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