MUMBAI: While hailing the BCCI's decision to double the pension of former cricketers, men and women, and ex-umpires, former Board secretary Niranjan Shah on Tuesday urged the present dispensation that the pension scheme should cover those cricketers who've played less than 25 First-Class games before 2003-04 too.
"In my humble opinion, the BCCI should also sympathetically consider to cover in pension scheme players who have played less than 25 First-Class matches before 2003-04, cut-off year as decided by the BCCI," Shah said.
