{"id":9238,"date":"2025-09-29T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=642190"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:12:46","slug":"bcci-rewards-team-india-with-8-times-more-than-official-asia-cup-prize-money-know-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bcci-rewards-team-india-with-8-times-more-than-official-asia-cup-prize-money-know-more\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI rewards Team India with 8 times more than official Asia Cup prize money \u2013 Know More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"418\">India clinched their ninth Asia Cup title with a thrilling five-wicket victory over Pakistan in Dubai, but the real shock came after the match \u2014 not from the game, but from the prize announcements.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"776\">The <strong data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"455\">Asian Cricket Council (ACC)<\/strong>, which had raised the official winners\u2019 purse to <strong data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"533\">USD 300,000 (\u20b92.6 crore)<\/strong> for this edition, awarded India the cheque as per rules. However, the <strong data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"652\">Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)<\/strong> went much further, announcing a <strong data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"705\">\u20b921 crore reward<\/strong> for the champions \u2014 nearly <strong data-start=\"733\" data-end=\"773\">eight times the official prize money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 blows.<br \/>0 response.<br \/>Asia Cup Champions.<br \/>Message delivered. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3<\/p>\n<p>21 crores prize money for the team and support staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsiaCup2025?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsiaCup2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y4LzMv15ZC\">pic.twitter.com\/y4LzMv15ZC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1972385514658689275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"778\" data-end=\"1245\">BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia called it a \u201cbig reward\u201d for the unbeaten Indian side and confirmed the fund would be shared among players and support staff. The massive gesture once again underlined the financial clout of the Indian board, which has a history of overshadowing official tournament purses. For context, after India won the T20 World Cup 2024, the ICC\u2019s official prize money was just over \u20b920 crore, but the BCCI awarded the team a whopping \u20b9125 crore.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1554\">On the field, India\u2019s bowlers sparked a dramatic Pakistani collapse from 84 for no loss to 146 all out, with <strong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1393\">Kuldeep Yadav\u2019s four-wicket burst<\/strong> doing the damage. In the chase, the top order faltered, but <strong data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1483\">Tilak Varma\u2019s unbeaten 69<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1514\">Shivam Dube\u2019s quick 33<\/strong> steered India home in the final over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1709\">For Pakistan, the runners-up cheque of <strong data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1631\">USD 150,000 (\u20b91.3 crore approx.)<\/strong> provided little relief compared to the gulf created by BCCI\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India clinched their ninth Asia Cup title with a thrilling five-wicket victory over Pakistan in Dubai, but the real shock\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":31928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}