Report: Miandad unhappy with salary

Javed Miandad resigned as director general of the Pakistan Cricket Board after being offered a "low" monthly salary, a report said Saturday.

The News newspaper published a handwritten letter from PCB's human resources director Wasim Bari to chief operating officer Salim Altaf after discussing the contract with Miandad.

The report said Miandad was offered 500,000 rupees ($6,300) per month in the contract which the former test captain and coach refused last Wednesday, resigning the position he had held on an honorary basis since November.

"He (Miandad) earns 75,000 rupees/50,000 rupees for a one hour program on TV," Bari's letter read.

"As he is a renowned international cricketer therefore he should be paid accordingly as (former India coach) Greg Chappell and (ex-Pakistan coach) Geoff Lawson."

The letter also said that Miandad wanted to take full charge of all cricketing affairs so that he could bring the desired results.

Miandad, 51, cited his "limited role" as a reason to resign and denied he quit in protest at the pay being offered.

"Salary was not the issue because had I gone after the money I would have become the coach of national team when the PCB offered me the post in last October," Miandad had said.

"The contract read that I will look after domestic cricket, development of the grounds and development of the game which was not sufficient for what I really wanted to do for the promotion of cricket in Pakistan," he said.

Miandad was one of the six former test cricketers appointed by chairman Ijaz Butt after he took over as chairman PCB in October, along with Altaf, Bari , Aamir Sohail (national academy director), Abdul Qadir (chief selector) and Intikhab Alam (coach).

Miandad _ who has three times held the post of national team coach _ is Pakistan's highest run-getter in test matches with 8,832 runs in 124 tests. He played 233 ODI, making 7,381 runs.