KARACHI: Dollar East will be honouring Pakistan’s top cricketers including captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Ajmal, Asad Shafiq, Kamran Akmal and Sarfraz Ahmed for their meritorious contribution to the sport.

“The way Misbah has led the team and Saeed Ajmal has performed for the country over the years, they deserved to be appropriately honoured with cash awards and other prizes,” head of Dollar East Sports and former first-class cricketer Zaheer Ahmed said on Monday.

“Besides them, we would also be honouring senior wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal and youngsters like Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed.”

Zaheer said a detailed plan is being worked out to honour them at a glittering ceremony here in December after the Pakistan-New Zealand series in the UAE. “We (Dollar East) had launched these awards at a small scale and now expanding its spectrum at national level,” he said.

Zaheer added that Kamran Akmal, Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed have also played for Dollar East and Royal Cricket Club.

Apart from these top players, Zaheer said his organisation will also be patronising and supporting first-class cricketers such as Rehan Rafiq, Moinuddin, Abdul Rehman Muzammil, Gulraiz Sadaf, Lal Kumar, Imran Ahmed and Ansar Javed.

He added that the Dollar East cricket team have also introduced a policy that any batsman scoring a hundred and bowler taking five wickets will get Rs5,000 each and the wicket-keepers and fielders with excellence performance will also be handed cash awards.

He hoped that these incentives will encourage the players to perform well in domestic circuit.

Published in Dawn, October 21st , 2014