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Mumbai: If Indian cricket were to rock 'n roll, the curators could easily be playing Deep Purple's 'Highway Star'. Because that's precisely how their pitches have turned out over the last few years - highways!
And if you thought it wasn't music to BCCI's ears, you are wrong. The curators' salary, in fact, has now been doubled from Rs 20,000 a month to Rs 40,000. This decision has been taken while keeping on hold a more important one: should the curators be playing a greater role in making result-oriented pitches for India's premier domestic tournament, the Ranji Trophy?
To be fair to the curators, especially senior ones like Dhiraj Parsana and Daljit Singh, it must be mentioned that there was a time - from 1983 to 1994 when they would merely get a stipend of Rs 1800 per month.
From 1995 to 2002, in fact, the BCCI had stopped even the stipend and local associations would pay them a meagre allowance on a match-to-match basis. "We started getting a monthly salary of Rs 20,000 only in 2002. I'm happy that the board has increased it. We had been requesting for it for long," Parsana told TOI on Friday after the decision was announced.
The BCCI, in all its generosity, has even given the national selectors a pay-hike. The senior national selectors now stand to earn Rs 40 lakh each and the junior national selectors Rs 20 lakh each.
