Abdul Razzaq is Pakistan’s former cricket player who represented Pakistan internationally. The cricketer has played all the formats of the game. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Abdul Razzaq was famous for his amazing batting skills as well. He was a right-handed batter. He started his career in 1996 when he was 17 years old, he debuted against Zimbabwe. He was part of the Pakistan Cricket Team squad that won the ICC World Cup T20 2009. He played 265 ODIs and 46 Tests. Abdul Razzaq is happily married and has grown up kids.
Lately, Abdul Razzaq appeared in Nadir Ali’s podcast where he talked about his earnings as a national cricket team player. While replying to Nadir Ali’s question, “did you earn more money from leagues or from national cricket?, Abdul Razzaq replied, “we have earned more from Pakistani teams, at that time, there were many one days and test matches. We used to get 10 thousand per match in 1996, In 2000, we started getting 2.5 lac rupees. In India, the amounts for the first class cricket were huge. We played with a decent average, we used to play 35 one days and 10 test matches per year, all our earnings were due to national cricket team”. He said that there were no central contracts before 2001.
Talking about the match fee during the time he left cricket, Razzaq said, “the fee increased up 6.5 lac rupees for ODIs and 10 Lac rupees for test matches and now it has massively increased”. He further said that they used to have good sponsors and ads at that time.
