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Mumbai, Apr 10: Cricketers of yesteryears will benefit from the current riches of the BCCI which on Sunday decided to extend its pension scheme on a mega scale.
  
 
The likes of Sunil Gavaskar and Mohinder Amarnath, who led India to 1983 World Cup triumph, will receive upto Rs 35,000 as monthly pension, it was decided by the BCCI working committee which met in Mumbai.

The committee decided to extend the existing pension scheme, which covered those who played before 1975, to include those who represented India in Tests and one-day internationals till December 31, 1993.

Accordingly, those who have played in 25 Tests or more would be eligible for Rs 35,000 each while those who played in less than 25 Tests would be eligible for Rs 25,000.

Besides, umpires who stood in more than 25 Tests or one-dayers would receive a pension of Rs 10,000 each.

World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev, however, will miss out as he retired in 1994.

 
The BCCI decided to set aside a corpus of Rs 50 crore for the development of other sports. "The BCCI has decided to do something for other games. It was decided that training and coaching, both in India and overseas, of promising under-15 players in other disciplines which are part of Asian Games and Olympics," its president Sharad Pawar said after the meeting.

Among other decisions at the meeting, the Committee authorized the president to select eight centres to host 2011 World Cup ties which India is jointly bidding with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The BCCI resolved that only players could wear the India caps and not the working staff.