Four PCB Mentors Continue to Draw Salaries Despite Champions Cup Cancellation: Report
PCB has been criticised as Sarfaraz Ahmed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Waqar Younis and Saqlain Mushtaq still receive salaries for a cancelled tournament.
In a major revelation regarding the Pakistan Cricket Board's financial irregularities, four cricketers – former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Waqar Younis, and Saqlain Mushtaq – continue to receive salaries as mentors of a tournament that has been cancelled, according to a report in Cricket Pakistan.
As per details, in 2024, the PCB appointed five former national team cricketers, former all-rounder Shoaib Malik, Sarfaraz, Misbah, Waqar and Saqlain, as mentors for a new project, the Champions Cup.
The players were drawing PKR 5 million (over Rs 15 lakh) per month, but with the tournament scrapped in recent months, their roles became redundant.
While Malik had stepped down, the other four ex-cricketers continue to draw their monthly salaries.
According to the report, the Pakistan Cricket Board has sent termination letters to Saqlain and Waqar.
Sarfaraz and Misbah have been retained by the PCB permanently, though they are yet to be assigned any new roles.
According to the report, there is a chance of their salaries being reduced and the cricketers have already been informed about this.
All five mentors had drawn criticism for receiving a hefty PKR 5 million per month. Those salaries drew criticism as they exceeded the pay of all but Pakistan's top-tier category A cricketers, Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan, in the central contracts pool.
The Champions Cup had yet to generate any concrete commercial revenue. The PCB had invited team partners and sponsors, but as of last August, hadn't confirmed if any had joined.
The Pakistan Cricket Board hoped that the mentors would step down, but with contracts guaranteeing four months' salary upon termination, none chose to resign.
The PCB thus opted to end the contracts of two mentors, Saqlain and Waqar, while retaining the other two.
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