The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has cleared the payment of former Head Coach of the Indian cricket team, Anil Kumble. He has been paid an amount of Rs. 48,75,000 twice as professional fees for the month of May and June.

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The former Indian leg spinner was with the team during the ICC Champions Trophy. He was given an extension by the board for the tour to Windies but he decided to step down on June 20, just a day after India’s loss to Pakistan in the final of Champions Trophy. In his good bye note, he mentioned about not having a good rapport with skipper Virat Kohli and cited untenable relation with him as a reason for his exit. Kohli though did not comment on the matter.

Now the matter has come to an end and Indian team is currently in Sri Lanka to play a full fledged series against the hosts under new Head Coach Ravi Shastri – who shares a good rapport with the Indian skipper.

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Apart from paying the amount to Kumble, the board also cleared one time benefits of 23 former cricketers who played a total of 1 to 9 Test matches for India. Bharat Arun – the current bowling coach, Sarandeep Singh – the present selector and Jatin Paranjpe – former national selector – are few of the highlighting names in the list. Apart from them, the list includes likes of Robin Singh, Rashid Patel, David Johnson, Pranab Roy, Vivek Razdan, Yograj Singh, Subroto Banerjee, TA Sekar, Suru Nayak, Tinu Yohannan, Ghulam Parkar, Harvinder Singh, Salil Ankola, Noel David, Prashant Vaidya, T Kumaran, Ashok Patel, Atul Bedade and Reetinder Sodhi.

All the players have been paid an amount of Rs. 35 Lakhs. There are still some players who have to be paid the same amount and the board might clear their payment in the month of August.

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