BCCI paid ICC 2.4 crores for having Dhawal Kulkarni the World Cup 2015 squad

BCCI secretary Mr. Anurag Thakur, in an interview this year, stated that BCCI is trying to be more transparent and accountable. Later, the result was clearly visible as BCCI started listing every detail of payments made over 25 lakhs on its website.

An interesting information on the list of entries for BCCI payments for the month of November is that the BCCI paid a whopping Rs 2.4 crores the ICC for having Dhawal Kulkarni as a part of the World Cup 2015 squad.

ICC rules stipulate that all squads taking part in the World Cup will have 15 members, but the Indian board insisted on having Dhawal Kulkarni as the 17th member in Australia. At that time, reports suggested that India had kept Dhawal as part of the team’s backroom staff.

He was named in the list of 30 probables for the World Cup but didn’t feature in the final squad. The chances of him making the cut were bright after Ishant Sharma’s injury. But, Haryana medium-pacer Mohit Sharma was chosen over him to replace Ishant.

However, Kulkarni was kept with the teams as other seamers were also struggling with injuries. He was included mainly because Bhuvneshwar Kumar was struggling with an injury ever since the tour to Australia started last December and Mohammad Shami also missing a match in the World Cup due to injury.

The total sum of 2.4 crores was paid to the ICC as payment towards “airfare, accommodation, per diem and catering charges incurred for additional team members during ICC CWC 2015,” as the note on the Board’s website says.

Other Payments

The BCCI has also paid the world cricket body an additional amount of USD 3,80,000 “towards ACSU services for IPL 2015.”

Tour and match fees along with retainers have also been paid to current cricketers Harbhajan Singh, Umesh Yadav, Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay and Rohit Sharma while former captain Sunil Gavaskar has been given commentary fees for the period between July and September 2015.

Retired cricketer Zaheer Khan has been paid Rs 81.12 lakh “towards loss of pay rpt pay for IPL 2014”.

Here is the list of foreign payments put up on the BCCI website