ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that Pakistani cricket players earned an income of Rs 414,691,821 during the year 2014 and Rs 505,794,334 during the year 2015.
In a written reply to a question of Parveen Masood Bhatti, during question hour, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada informed the House that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has submitted the year-wise income earned by each player of the Pakistan Cricket team during the year 2014 and 2015.
He said, in the year 2014, Muhammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal and Umer Gul topped list of highest paid players i.e. 3,59,61,197 each.
While in the year 2015, Muhammad Hafeez again topped the list of highest earned player i.e. Rs. 3,92,26,579, followed by Sarfraz Ahmed Rs. 3,36,72,329 and Azhar Ali Rs 3,00,88,108.
Following is the list of the players and the amount they earned in 2014:
1 Misbah ul Haq 28,731,799 2 Muhammad Hafeez 35,961,197 3 Saeed Ajmal 35,961,197 4 Shahid Afridi 26,964,613 5 Younus Khan 13,309,084 6 Umer Gul 35,961,197 7 Ahmed Shahzad 21,654,537 8 Junaid Khan 29,526,548 9 Asad Shafiq 10,890,767 10 Umer Akmal 21,654,537 11 Sohaib Maqsood 29,526,548 12 Sarfraz Ahmed 3,018,756 13 Bilawal Bhatti 21,654,537 14 Azhar Ali 10,890,767 15 Adnan Akmal 8,472,438 16 Sharjeel Khan 16,344,449 17 Zulfiqar Baba 8,472,438 18 Khurram Manzoor 8,472,438 19 Mohammad Talha 23,091,887 20 Faisal lqbal 1,725,000 21 Nasir Jamshed 16,344,449 22 Muhammad Irfan 6,062,639 Total: 414,691,821
Detail of players' income for the year 2015 1 Muhammad Hafeez 39,226,579 2 Sarfraz Ahmad 33,672,329 3 Azhar Ali 30,088,108 4 Wahab Riaz 29,122,413 5 Ahmed Shahzad 28,076,275 6 Yasir Shah 27,439,053 7 Shoaib Malik 26,059,608 8 Misbah Ul Haq 24,734,637 9 Younis Khan 24,729,720 10 Asad Shafiq 19,585,915 11 Shahid Afridi 18,514,804 12 Rahat Ali 17,564,998 13 Muhammad Irfan 15,453,026 14 Mohammad Rizwan 14,039,720 15 Junaid Khan 13,227,666 16 Umer Akmal 11,891,498 17 Haris Sohail 11,548,276 18 Anwar Ali 11,254,804 19 Zulfiqar Babar 10,604,971 20 Amad Wasim 8,604,055 21 Sohaib Maqsood 8,350,360 22 Imran Khan 8,034,944 23 Shan Masood 7,238,333 24 Babar Azam 6,884,138 25 Saeed Ajmal 6,185,416 26 Bilal Asif 5,720,916 27 Ehsan Adil 5,670,333 28 Sohail Khan 5,264,638 29 Fawad Alam 5,217,416 30 Mukhtar Ahmad 4,657,833 31 Sohail Tanvir 3,986,444 32 Aamer Yamin 3,267,222 33 Sami Aslam 3,183,027 34 Muhammad Sammi 2,105,222 35 Nasir Jamshed 2,024,416 36 Bilawal Bhatti 1,947,222 37 Hammad Azam 1,705,416 38 Imran Khan Jr. 1,562,416 39 Saad Nasim 1,480,916 40 Riffatullah Mohammad 1,067,416 41 Nauman Anwar 1,015,805 42 Iftikhar Ahmad 986,611 43 Zafar Gohar 795,805 44 Umer Gul 788,611 45 Umer Amin 720,000 46 Zia UI Haq 495,000 Total: 505,794,334 Source: APP