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CWC incentive for Pak players
Lahore - The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Sunday it would give five million rupees ($83 000) to each member of its World Cup squad if they win the tournament.
The 15 members of the squad will get 2.5 million rupees each if they reach the final in the Caribbean and 1.2 million rupees for getting to the semi-finals.
"We hope the team achieves the best results in the coming World Cup and as a reward each player will get a handsome cash prize and we hope the incentives encourage them," PCB chairperson Naseem Ashraf said.
The squad also met Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in a ceremony on Saturday night and he urged them to do well, officials said.
Pakistan have won the World Cup only once, in 1992, and after that win each of the players were given costly luxury plots of land in the capital Islamabad.
But Pakistan face tough times ahead of the event starting on March 13 with question marks over two of their key bowlers, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, who must pass both fitness and doping tests.
Akhtar and Asif were due to fly to England later on Sunday for reassessments of their injuries. Akhtar is battling with knee and hamstring injuries while Asif has a recurrence of an elbow injury sustained last year. Both tested positive for the steroid nandrolone last year but their bans were controversially overturned. They now face life bans if they test positive again.
CWC incentive for Pak players
Lahore - The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Sunday it would give five million rupees ($83 000) to each member of its World Cup squad if they win the tournament.
The 15 members of the squad will get 2.5 million rupees each if they reach the final in the Caribbean and 1.2 million rupees for getting to the semi-finals.
"We hope the team achieves the best results in the coming World Cup and as a reward each player will get a handsome cash prize and we hope the incentives encourage them," PCB chairperson Naseem Ashraf said.
The squad also met Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in a ceremony on Saturday night and he urged them to do well, officials said.
Pakistan have won the World Cup only once, in 1992, and after that win each of the players were given costly luxury plots of land in the capital Islamabad.
But Pakistan face tough times ahead of the event starting on March 13 with question marks over two of their key bowlers, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, who must pass both fitness and doping tests.
Akhtar and Asif were due to fly to England later on Sunday for reassessments of their injuries. Akhtar is battling with knee and hamstring injuries while Asif has a recurrence of an elbow injury sustained last year. Both tested positive for the steroid nandrolone last year but their bans were controversially overturned. They now face life bans if they test positive again.
