Cricket Kenya is on the verge of offering its leading players one-yearcontracts
Cricinfo staff20-Jun-2007Send us your feedbackCricket Kenya is on the verge of offering its leading players one-year contracts.The board has agreed terms with the players, Roger Harper, the coach, hasgiven his views and the national selectors are now drawing up a final listof between 18 and 20 names who will be invited to sign the contracts. Theselectors also need to divide the players into three categories, based onseniority and ability, which will determine how much they get paid.”They will be offered one-year deals,” Samir Inamdar, the board’s chairman,told Cricinfo. “This has been made possible by the money we received fromwinning the World Cricket League and also from the Nimbus TV deal.”Those chosen will receive a regular monthly salary as well as appearancefees for ODIs. For four-day Intercontinental Cup games they will get theequivalent fee for three ODIs.”The board has also offered to share a third of prize-money and appearancemoney with squad players. And people can still be picked from outside those oncentral contracts, but they will be paid on a match-by-match basis.A few leading Kenya players have contracts overseas and Inamdar stressedthat these could continue subject to the prior agreement of the board.Their central contracts will be suspended for the period they are employedplaying cricket elsewhere.Inamdar said that at the moment the contracts were for one years and thesituation would be reviewed after that. Much depends on whether theboard is able to attract new sponsors and also how much the board’sshare of the new ICC media deal with ESPN brings in.