NEW DELHI: Indian Test captain Virat Kohli earned Rs 308 crore in 2016, 100 times more than the highest earning cricketer of Pakistan Mohammad Hafeez.

Kohli, the star batsman who scored the double century against West Indies, took home approximately Rs 308 crore as earnings from the BCCI, much more than Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez, who remained highest earning cricketer in 2015-16.

However, the earnings of Virat Kohli include match fees as well as income from endorsements.

Pakistani all-rounder Hafeez earned approximately Rs 2.5 crore in the recent year.

According to the Pakistan Cricket Board, it paid some 46 cricketers around 550 million rupees as their fees and bonuses for all formats of the game.

The PCB said in the documents sent to the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Co-ordination that the players representing Pakistan in all three formats have earned the highest money in the last fiscal year. Sarfaraz Ahmed earned around 33 million rupees.

Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi earned approximately 18 million rupees.

The list of the top earning players includes national One-Day captain Azhar Ali (30 million rupees), Younis Khan (24 million), Misbah-ul-Haq (24 million), Ahmed Shahzad (28 million), Wahab Riaz (29 million), Shoaib Malik (26 million), Asad Shafiq (20 million), Rahat Ali (17 million), Mohammad Irfan (15 million), Umar Akmal (18 million), Junaid Khan (13 million), Zulfiqar Babar (11 million), Anwar Ali (12 million), Muhammad Rizwan (14 million).

Some of these players have faced problems with the federal taxation and revenue officials over not disclosing their full earnings or non-payment of wealth taxes.

The PCB has been increasing the players’ fees and monthly central contract retainers since the last two years.