How Will Rs 58 Crore Of CT 2025 Prize Be Divided Among Indian Players? BCCI Secretary Reveals
India's 2025 Champions Trophy-winning team and head coach Gautam Gambhir will each earn Rs 3 crore from BCCI's Rs 58 crore reward.
The 15 players of Indian men‘s 2025 Champions Trophy winning team and head coach Gautam Gambhir will earn Rs 3 crore each from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s Rs 58 crore cash reward announced on Thursday, according to board secretary Devajit Saikia.
In the eight-team tournament hosted by Pakistan and the UAE, Rohit Sharma‘s men went through unbeaten in three group-stage games. They then beat familiar foes Australia in the semi-final before registering a stunning four-wicket win over New Zealand in the final at the Dubai International Stadium. It was the Men in Blue’s third title in the competition — a new record — and the second ICC trophy in two years after the T20 World Cup win in 2024.
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“The 15-member India squad who won the 2025 Champions Trophy will get Rs 3 crore each. Head coach Gautam Gambhir will get Rs 3 crore," Saikia told news agency IANS on Thursday.
Squad players Arshdeep Singh, Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar, who didn’t get to play a single game in the tournament, will also get the same share of the prize money.
Saikia added that the rest of the coaching group will get Rs 50 lakhs each. These include batting coach Sitanshu Kotak, assistant coaches Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate, fielding coach T Dilip, physiotherapists Kamlesh Jain and Yogesh Parmar, team doctor Aditya Daftary, throwdown specialists Raghavindraa Dvgi, Nuwan Udeneke and Dayanand Garani, masseurs Chetan Kumar, Rajeev Kumar and Arun Kanade, and strength and conditioning coach Soham Desai.
Saikia also confirmed rewards for the rest of the BCCI officials with the team.
“The rest of the BCCI officials like the media manager and liaison officer will get Rs 25 lakhs each," he said.
Meanwhile, chief selector Ajit Agarkar will get Rs 30 lakhs, while the rest of the committee members – Subroto Banerjee, Ajay Ratra, S Sharath and Shiv Sunder Das – will receive Rs 25 lakhs each.
Saikia further revealed the prize money given by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to be around Rs 19.45 crore. He said that has only been divided among the fifteen players where each will get Rs 1,43,58,000 crore from it.
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