This was extensively discussed during a meeting of the Board's advisory council at the BCB's Gulshan office on Sunday. The meeting also considered giving the selection policy a more professional outlook after it accepted the resignation of the three-member selection committee headed by Aliul Islam.

Aliul tendered his resignation in mid-June but none could confirm when his fellow-selectors Omar Khaled and GM Nowsher had resigned.

"We (the advisors) were surprised when our president (Ali Asghar) revealed in the meeting that both Khaled and Nowsher had also sent their resignation letters to him confidentially," said BCB advisor and Cricket Committee chairman Mahbubul Anam yesterday.

"We are also thinking to be more professional in handling the selectors. Maybe there will be fresh terms and conditions for them," he added without elaborating.

Mahbub also said that the meeting approved the new payroll system for the national cricketers. The number of grades have been reduced from four to three.

According to the new system a Grade A cricketer will receive Taka 40,000 as monthly salary while a Grade B player would be getting Taka 30,000. For Grade C cricketers the salary has been fixed at Taka 20,000 per month.

A cricketer having played 61 or more ODIs for Bangladesh, a Test match is considered as two ODIs, will fall under Grade A while a player played 31 or more ODIs will fall under Grade B. The rest will be included in Grade C.

The new system is effective from the current Australia tour while a fresh list of 12 cricketers on the BCB payroll will be finalised by coach Dav Whatmore at the end of the tour.

According to Anam, all six cricketers now on Board's payroll, might not be kept in the new list. "It all depends on how they perform in Australia."