World Cup 2011 rewards for Team India

Here I have made a list of what the Indian team got as a whole and what individual players were given. The figures are mind-boggling if you are a sports-person in India.

1. BCCI awards 1 crore 2 crore rupees to each individual player, 50 la
2. Hyundai India awards a new Verna to each member of the squad
3. Indian Railways announced free life-time travel by any member of the squad in AC First Class
4. One private airline has pledged a lifetime of free travel on domestic and international flights for all 15 players in the team, along with their wives and children.
5. One major property company announced it was presenting the whole team with homes worth a total of £1.2m in a new development in a satellite town of Delhi.
6. MS Dhoni
   • 1 crore rupees and real estate from Delhi govt
   • Residential plot or house in Mussoorie
   • Stadium to be built in his honour on Uttarakhand
   • Plot for a cricket academy in Jharkhand
   • Promoted as Manager by Air India
   • Now an honorary officer – a lieutenant-colonel – in the Indian army
7. Virat Kohli
   • Rs 1 crore from Delhi govt
8. Virender Sehwag
   • Rs 1 crore from Delhi govt
9. Sachin Tendulkar
   • Residential plot or house in Mussoorie
   • Rs 1 crore from Maharashtra govt
10. Yuvraj Singh
    • Rs 1 crore from Punjab govt
    • Car from Audi
11. Gautam Gambhir
    • Rs 1 crore from Delhi govt
12. Zaheer Khan
    • Rs 1 crore from Maharashtra govt
13. Harbhajan Singh
    • Rs 1 crore from Punjab govt
14. Ashish Nehra
    • Rs 1 crore from Delhi govt
15. Munaf Patel
    • Eklavya Award from Gujarat govt (Rs 1 lakh and a citation)
16. Yusuf Pathan
    • Eklavya Award from Gujarat govt (Rs 1 lakh and a citation)
17. Suresh Raina
    • Kanshiram International Sports award from Uttar Pradesh govt
    • 10 lakh rupees from Uttar Pradesh govt
18. Piyush Chawla
    • Kanshiram International Sports award from Uttar Pradesh govt
    • 10 lakh rupees from Uttar Pradesh govt

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