BCCI pays Ravi Shastri Rs 8 crore as remuneration; support staff compensated for foregoing IPL contracts

New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to pay new chief coach Ravi Shastri a whopping salary, which could go upto Rs 8 crore per annum.

It was learnt that the top brass of BCCI was unanimous in their decision on Shastri’s perks, which is atleast a crore more than previous coach Anil Kumble’s salary of Rs 6.5 crore.

Ironically, in Kumble’s demand for an increment was exactly to the tune of what Shastri will be getting.

The three other coaches, Bharat Arun, R Sridhar and Sanjay Bangar are expected to be bracketed between Rs 2.3 crore taking into account that they need to compensated for foregoing their Indian Premier League (IPL) contracts.

Ravi Shastri was recently appointed head coach for Team India after a highly publicised process led by the Committee of Administrators consisting of former Indian players Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman.

Though the CoA had originally suggested Zaheer Khan as the bowling consultant and Rahul Dravid as the batting consultant on overseas tours, Shastri chose to go with his choices for the assistant coaches.