BCCI owes England cricketers £80,000 for their ongoing tour of India

England tour manager Phil Neal has requested the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to speed up the payments due to the England cricketers on tour. These payments are the allowances that a host nation needs to pay a touring side each time the latter makes a tour to the country. At the moment, Neal has reported that none of the English cricketers have been paid a dime by the BCCI.

Alastair Cook and his band of merry men have been in India for all of 19 days but have not been paid their daily allowances of £50 per day by the Indian board to cover for their hotel travel costs and provide a daily stipend for the visiting team and officials. The Indian players and ICC umpires have been paid. The amount due for the 16 team staff and the 17 players amounts to £80,000.

At the moment, cash flow as far as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is concerned isn’t an issue, but sources have stated that it is a matter of principle that the host nation pays its dues to the England players who have made the tour.

Prior to the start of the tour, the ECB, and the BCCI had signed a memorandum of understanding with the BCCI hamstrung by the restrictions imposed on them by the Lodha Panel. The Lodha committee had also gone on to freeze the bank accounts of the board during the New Zealand tour, something that had threatened the completion of the series.

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The Indian board wrote to Neal warning they were unable to provide expenses for the England team due to restrictions placed on their financial dealings by India’s Supreme Court. The demonetization has also had its effect on the ordeal as the Indian players have only been paid in part witnessing some of them walking around with massive wads of cash while the England staff has been using credit cards for the same.