Chandigarh, February 21: Hyderabad-based AMR Foundation, which organised charity hockey matches involving national team members here, today said that the players voluntarily agreed to appear in the event and no commitment to pay them Rs five crore was made.
Hardeep Sandhu, a member of AMR’s organising committee and the Foundation spokesman Ansul Nagar said it was “unfortunate” that the players did not turn up in the match that featured some Bollywood stars and TV personalities yesterday.
“There was never a commitment on the part of AMR Foundation to give a certain specified amount to each of the players. The commitment was to equally distribute the proceeds from the match among the 22 players. To say that Rs five lakh was promised to every player is completely baseless,” said a statement issued by the Foundation.
–Agencies