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India's Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma returning to the Vijay Hazare Trophy has injected renewed buzz into India’s premier home one-day competition. While the tourney whitethorn not bask the spectacle oregon fiscal standard of the Indian Premier League, it remains the backbone of India’s white-ball home structure.
The beingness of 2 of the country’s biggest stars has people drawn attraction not lone to the matches themselves, but besides to however the contention is organised and however players are compensated. Unlike the IPL, wherever subordinate salaries are shaped by an auction, net successful the
Vijay Hazare
Trophy travel a intelligibly defined framework. For the 2025–26 season, lucifer fees are governed by a tiered strategy based connected the fig of List A appearances a subordinate has made. Experience, alternatively than prima power, determines pay, which places veterans similar
Kohli
and Rohit successful the highest bracket.
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Players with much than 40 List A matches autumn nether the elder class and gain Rs 60,000 per lucifer if they are portion of the playing XI, and Rs 30,000 if named among the reserves. Those with 21 to 40 List A games are classified arsenic mid-level players, receiving Rs 50,000 per lucifer successful the XI and Rs 25,000 arsenic reserves. The inferior bracket, comprising players with up to 20 List A appearances, earns Rs 40,000 per lucifer erstwhile playing and Rs 20,000 erstwhile connected the bench.
In the existent season, Kohli, representing Delhi, and Rohit, turning retired for Mumbai, gain the aforesaid lucifer interest arsenic immoderate different seasoned home cricketer. Having comfortably crossed the 40-match mark, some autumn into the elder class and are paid Rs 60,000 per game. This fig stands successful stark opposition to their planetary earnings, with the
BCCI
paying them Rs 6 lakh per ODI. Match fees, however, are not the lone root of income successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Players besides person regular allowances that screen travel, nutrient and accommodation during the tournament. On apical of that, idiosyncratic performances tin bring further rewards, with Man of the Match awards typically carrying a currency prize of Rs 10,000. Teams that advancement heavy into the contention besides payment from prize money, which is shared among players and enactment staff.
