India beat England by 36 runs to clinch the inaugural T20 Physical Disability Cricket World Series, organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), in 2019. As a token of appreciation, the BCCI had honoured the team with a ‘dummy cheque’ of Rs. 65 lakh, presented to the team captain Vikrant Keni and Gurudas Raut on March 4 this year.
But two months on, the players are yet to receive the amount. The situation has forced Ravi Chauhan, Secretary, All-India Cricket Association for Physically Challenged, to write to the BCCI chief requesting him to transfer the money directly to the players’ accounts, according to a report in Sportstar.
Letter from Secretary, All-India Cricket Association for Physically Challenged has been marked to CEO Rahul Johri, GM Saba Karim
Ravi Chauhan, Secretary, All-India Cricket Association for Physically Challenged, has requested the office bearers to sent the prize money ‘as soon as possible’. He also added, in the lockdown situation it will be helpful for the players as they do not have any regular source of income.
“This is with regards to the prize money for the Indian Divyang Cricket Team winners of the first-ever Physical Disability World Cricket Series England, August 2019,” Chauhan wrote in the letter as quoted by Sportstar.
“We are grateful to the BCCI for honouring our winning team members with Rs 65 lakh,
“We wanted to request you to transfer the players’ prize money as soon as possible. It will be very useful to them in this lockdown as most of them have no source of regular earning. Hope you will give directions in this regard and request to please ensure this is done with in quickest time please,” Chauhan added.
The report, however, mentioned that the money has already been released by the cricket board and the players should receive it in a few days.
