If we compare the cricketers of Lahore, Pakistan and India then Pakistani cricketers are better than Indian cricketers in many respects but if we compare the remuneration of the players in both the countries then the difference is obvious.
According to the website ‘Pro Pakistani’, players in A-plus category in India are paid 914,417. There is no player in this category in Pakistan.
After this, A category players are paid 7,696 in Pakistan while in India this category players are paid 653,155. In category B, the compensation is 5,247 in Pakistan and 391,893 in India, while in category C it is only 3,848 in Pakistan and 130,631 in India.
Test match fee in Pakistan is 4,267 while in India 19,594, ODI match fee is 2,624 in Pakistan, 7,837 in India and T20 match fee is 1,893 in Pakistan while India I am paid 3,918.
In Pakistan, Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi, Muhammad Rizwan and Hassan Ali play in A category. Azhar Ali, Fahim Ashraf, Fakhr Zaman, Fawad Alam, Shadab Khan and Yasir Shah are in B category while Abid Ali, Imamul Haq, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Noman Ali and Sarfraz Ahmed are playing in C category.
Imran Butt, Shah Nawaz Dahani and Usman Qadir play in the emerging category.
In India, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jaspreet Bhamra are in the A-plus category. Ravi Chandran Ashwin, Ravinder Jadeja, Rishbh Pant, KL Rahul and Mohammad Sami in A category.
Chattiswar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, Shardal Thakur, Amish Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Siraj in B category.
Hardik Pandey, Shikhar Dhawan, Vardhiman Saha, Mayank Agarwal, Deepak Chahar, Shabnam Gul, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shriyas Ayyar, Washington Sundar and Suryakumar Yadav play are in C category.