WCA chief slams ‘repeat offender’ BPL over non-payment of dues

Tom Moffat, the CEO of the World Cricketers’ Affiliation (WCA), has blasted the BPL for being “a repeat offender” in failing to pay the gamers on time. The response comes a day after Durbar Rajshahi’s abroad gamers boycotted their BPL match on Sunday due to non-payment of dues.

Even Rajshahi’s captain Taskin Ahmed had joked after the match that he hoped the cheques issued to the Bangladeshi gamers, hours earlier than the match, would not bounce just like the pitch. The BCB’s media chairman Iftekhar Rahman mentioned that the board is planning to take authorized motion in opposition to the Rajshahi franchise.

On Monday, Ryan Burl and Aftab Alam, two of Rajshahi’s abroad gamers, appeared for the staff’s final league match in opposition to Sylhet Strikers. It’s nonetheless not clear whether or not the franchise proprietor Shafique Rahman has paid them totally but.

Moffat expressed his shock on the matter, and referred to as the dearth of cost unacceptable.

“It is disappointing to listen to about extra non-payment points within the Bangladesh Premier League, which has been a repeat offender over a lot of years, ” Moffat advised ESPNcricinfo. “These points are unacceptable, they don’t seem to be getting higher, and it is the gamers who make the occasion which might be impacted. In any league that’s formally sanctioned, gamers ought to believe that their contracts have some fundamental protections and minimal requirements in them, and that they are often enforced effectively.

“The sport isn’t presently able to fixing transnational points like this for the time being, and that should change if it desires to proceed to assert to be a number one world sport in 2025.”

The BPL’s first two editions – in 2012 and 2013 – have been mired by non-payment points, with many gamers remaining unpaid by the franchises. The BCB even stopped the event for a season after there have been corruption scandals.

The cost problem cropped up this yr after Rajshahi’s native gamers boycotted a coaching session final week, after going completely unpaid for the primary two weeks of the event. Rajshahi reportedly additionally initially did not pay their staff resort in Chattogram, with their proprietor Rahman entering into bother with resort authorities. Additionally they had reserving points in Dhaka the place they needed to change resorts all of a sudden.