Cheteshwar Pujara has more than 3000 Test runs with 10 ton while Ishant Sharma has more than 200 Test wickets. Cheteshwar Pujara has more than 3000 Test runs with 10 ton while Ishant Sharma has more than 200 Test wickets. The Committee of Administrators (COA) received a proposal to consider a five-fold hike in the Central Contracts of Indian players with an aim to reaffirm Test cricket’s top status among the Gen-Next who are certainly enamoured by the IPL riches. A prominent personality, who has closely worked with the Lodha Committee on the constitutional and structural reforms in the BCCI, has sent a note to the COA with suggestions that the top grade of the Central Contracts be revised from the current Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore. For the record, Pujara has more than 3000 Test runs with 10 hundreds while Ishant has more than 200 Test wickets.

Source: Indian Express February 22, 2017 12:56 UTC