Date: 29 October 2011

MEDIA RELEASE

The Working Committee of the BCCI met in Kolkata earlier today.

The Working Committee approved the following:

1.Appointment of Evan Speechly as the Physiotherapist of the Indian team for a period of two years. He will join the team for the 3rd Test between India and West Indies.

2.IPL is categorized as List “A” match.

3.The BCCI has instituted an award for the Best All-Rounder in the Ranji Trophy and the Best All-Rounder in Domestic limited-overs tournaments, in the name of Late Shri. Lala Amarnath from this season, to commemorate the Birth Centenary of the former India captain. The award will comprise a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 2.5 lakhs, in each category.

4.Player gradations for 2011-12 were approved as detailed below:

A Grade - Rs. 1.00 Crore

1. Sachin Tendulkar

2. Rahul Dravid

3. Gautam Gambhir

4. Virender Sehwag

5. M S Dhoni

6. VVS Laxman

7. Suresh Raina

8. Harbhajan Singh

9. Zaheer Khan

10.Yuvraj Singh

11.Ishant Sharma

12.Virat Kohli

B Grade - Rs. 50.00 lakhs

1. Praveen Kumar

2. Pragyan Ojha

3. Ravichandran Ashwin

4. Rohit Sharma

5. Ravindra Jadeja

C Grade - Rs. 25.00 lakhs

1. S Sreesanth

2. Amit Mishra

3. Cheteshwar Pujara

4. Abhimanyu Mithun

5. Vinay Kumar

6. Ajinkya Rahane

7. Munaf Patel

8. Murali Vijay

9. Shikhar Dhawan

10.Wriddhiman Saha

11.Parthiv Patel

12.S Badrinath

13.Manoj Tiwary

14.Piyush Chawla

15.Dinesh Karthik

16.Jaydev Unadkat

17.Umesh Yadav

18.Rahul Sharma

19.Varun Aaron

20.Abhinav Mukund

5.The Working Committee approved in principle the proposal that a certain portion of the gate income of the IPL playoffs will be awarded as benefit for retired cricketers. A Committee has been appointed to work out the modalities.

6.The draft Sports Bill was presented to the Working Committee. The views of the BCCI are as follows:

While the BCCI is all for good governance and transparency in sports bodies, certain aspects of the Bill seek to destroy the autonomy of the Board and dilute the rights of its members. Therefore the Board is totally opposed to this Bill and will be communicating its objections to the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports shortly. It has to be borne in mind that “Sports” is a State subject and the Legislative Competence of Central Government is limited. The bill tends to encroach upon fundamental rights of Sports bodies.

Sanjay Jagdale

Hony. Secretary

BCCI