{"id":9955,"date":"2025-12-11T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670053"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:11:40","slug":"bcci-apex-council-to-review-domestic-pay-for-women-cricketers-on-dec-22-central-contracts-for-rohit-and-kohli-also-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bcci-apex-council-to-review-domestic-pay-for-women-cricketers-on-dec-22-central-contracts-for-rohit-and-kohli-also-on-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI Apex Council to review domestic pay for women cricketers on Dec 22; central contracts for Rohit and Kohli also on agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"501\">The BCCI will take up a major revision of domestic match fees for women cricketers at its next Apex Council meeting scheduled for <strong data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"377\">December 22<\/strong>, with the discussion coming weeks after India\u2019s historic ODI World Cup triumph. The meeting will be held virtually at 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"843\">While India\u2019s women cricketers enjoy <strong data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"601\">pay parity with the men\u2019s team at the international level<\/strong>, there remains a significant gap in domestic earnings. With growing scrutiny and the boost from the World Cup win, the BCCI is now preparing to update the compensation structure for players across senior, U-23 and U-19 domestic competitions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"1144\">Another key point on the agenda involves the <strong data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"930\">central contracts for the men\u2019s team<\/strong>, particularly with respect to <strong data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"993\">Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli<\/strong>, both of whom have recently retired from two of the three international formats. Their contract grading for the 2025\u201326 cycle will be closely watched.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1146\" data-end=\"1277\">The Board will also discuss <strong data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1230\">revisions in payments for umpires and match referees<\/strong>, with updated fee slabs likely to be proposed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1317\"><strong data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1317\">Agenda for the December 22 meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1639\">\n<li data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1380\">\n<p data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1380\">Confirmation of Minutes of the 30th Apex Council Meeting<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1447\">\n<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1447\">Revision in payments for women cricketers in domestic cricket<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1448\" data-end=\"1486\">\n<p data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1486\">Update on BCCI Digital Properties<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1537\">\n<p data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1537\">Revision in umpire and match referee payments<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1579\">\n<p data-start=\"1541\" data-end=\"1579\">Annual Player Retainership Contracts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1639\">\n<p data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1639\">Any other business deemed necessary by the Chairperson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1759\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The meeting will set the tone for key structural and financial updates within Indian cricket ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BCCI will take up a major revision of domestic match fees for women cricketers at its next Apex Council\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":23280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9955","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\/9955","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}