(De) Graded Payments
The BCCI has recently announced graded payments. The players will be divided in three categories ( on performance ), and would be insured a fixed amount, apart from match fees. Nice concept.
Different categories were necessary because, during a particular year - Sachin and Debashish Mohanty received similar amount of money form the board, the latter had hardly played or performed. After last World Cup, Parthiv Patel and Sanjay Bangar both received 67 Lakhs each - the same amount paid to other players , despite not even playing a single match. Same was true for Dinesh Mongia, who hardly performed.
The fixed amount was important because key players lost out on big money because of injuries. Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh are the examples. Now, even if they are injured, they will still get some money.
But what went for the toss was the choice of players for the different categories. They were hardly on performance. Most blatant case is against Sehwag and Harbhajan. Sehwag is on the list was just because of two innings - 309 and 196. For the rest of the games, he was honeymooning. Harbhajan's inclusion is even more perplexing. He was out due to injury for both Australia and Pakistan series, so he has hardly done anything good or bad.
It's very important we differentiate between outstanding, average and poor. There is always a chance that we might mis judge people either by recent performances( and ignoring the previous ones earlier in the year) or by Halo effect( ie not judging a person on his actual performance, but rather going on his over all persona). My categories would be as following.
Category A:
Rahul Dravid(Excellent)
Irfan Pathan(Excellent)
Sachin Tendulkar(Excellent in WC, good in Aus, avg. in Pak)
Category B:
VVS Laxman( Good in tests/one days in Aus, good in Pak in tests, avg in one days, poor other wise)
Kumble( Excellent in Aus, avg. other wise)
Sourav Ganguly(Good in WC, Good in tests/one days in Aus, Good captaincy, average otherwise)
Virendra Sehwag ( Bad WC, Good in Aus and Pak in tests and avg. in one dayers, bad other wise)
Yuvraj( Good WC, avg. Aus and Pak tour, bad otherwise)
Kaif( Good WC, avg. Pak tour, good ICC/ Natwest trophy, bad otherwise)
Balaji(Good Pak tour, Bad Asia Cup, avg. otherwise)
Nehra( Avg. over all).
Category C:
Akash Chopra( More than avg., but played less matches)
Harbhajan Singh(Hardly played )
Zaheer Khan(Hardly played or performed)
Agarkar(Apart from one test in Aus nothing to brag about)
No place for Parthiv, but of course. No place for Karthik either, till Kumble and Harbhajan are around .
Different categories were necessary because, during a particular year - Sachin and Debashish Mohanty received similar amount of money form the board, the latter had hardly played or performed. After last World Cup, Parthiv Patel and Sanjay Bangar both received 67 Lakhs each - the same amount paid to other players , despite not even playing a single match. Same was true for Dinesh Mongia, who hardly performed.
The fixed amount was important because key players lost out on big money because of injuries. Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh are the examples. Now, even if they are injured, they will still get some money.
But what went for the toss was the choice of players for the different categories. They were hardly on performance. Most blatant case is against Sehwag and Harbhajan. Sehwag is on the list was just because of two innings - 309 and 196. For the rest of the games, he was honeymooning. Harbhajan's inclusion is even more perplexing. He was out due to injury for both Australia and Pakistan series, so he has hardly done anything good or bad.
It's very important we differentiate between outstanding, average and poor. There is always a chance that we might mis judge people either by recent performances( and ignoring the previous ones earlier in the year) or by Halo effect( ie not judging a person on his actual performance, but rather going on his over all persona). My categories would be as following.
Category A:
Rahul Dravid(Excellent)
Irfan Pathan(Excellent)
Sachin Tendulkar(Excellent in WC, good in Aus, avg. in Pak)
Category B:
VVS Laxman( Good in tests/one days in Aus, good in Pak in tests, avg in one days, poor other wise)
Kumble( Excellent in Aus, avg. other wise)
Sourav Ganguly(Good in WC, Good in tests/one days in Aus, Good captaincy, average otherwise)
Virendra Sehwag ( Bad WC, Good in Aus and Pak in tests and avg. in one dayers, bad other wise)
Yuvraj( Good WC, avg. Aus and Pak tour, bad otherwise)
Kaif( Good WC, avg. Pak tour, good ICC/ Natwest trophy, bad otherwise)
Balaji(Good Pak tour, Bad Asia Cup, avg. otherwise)
Nehra( Avg. over all).
Category C:
Akash Chopra( More than avg., but played less matches)
Harbhajan Singh(Hardly played )
Zaheer Khan(Hardly played or performed)
Agarkar(Apart from one test in Aus nothing to brag about)
No place for Parthiv, but of course. No place for Karthik either, till Kumble and Harbhajan are around .
posted by Unknown at 10:54 AM
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