What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

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What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by Spijed » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:30 am

Obviously better paid than the players who just play county cricket but I wondered how much Cook, Root or Anderson earn per year?

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by claretdom » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:40 am

For those on central contracts in the test squad it was around 700k then they receive a bonus payment for any test ODI & 20/20 appearance

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by UpTheBeehole » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:41 am

Retainer of £700k, £12k test fee, £5k ODI, £2.5K T20

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by Quickenthetempo » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:44 am

Top players will be on around 1m a year and county cricketers 100k. A massive financial boost to what it was 10/15 years ago.

Muralitharan came to lancs as overseas when he was one of the top world cricketers for 78k for the season.

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by UpTheBeehole » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:50 am

I've just stumbled across an article about the sponsorship some players get, and Virat Kohli gets around $20m on top of his IPL and BCCI contracts of $6.9m. MS Dhoni gets $14m on top of $5.7m.

By contrast Chris Gayle gets sponsorship of $3m and league contracts of $4.5m

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by Goddy » Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:13 pm

In answer to the op question........plenty.

Stuart Broad lives half a mile from me in a pretty large place (just a little more palatial than my modest gaff) and I have witnessed Alex Hales roaring down the main drag in West Bridgford in his motor which looked more like the bat-mobile (and clearly didn't come cheap). Mind you he was dropping off his laundry (seriously) so not earning enough to get a minion to do his basic gophering!!!???!!

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Re: What's the average salary of a test cricketer?

Post by IanMcL » Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:34 pm

+ a pound a run and ten pouns a wicket, no doubt!

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