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Pakistan betting scandal: Divide and fall in cricket's great pay gap
By LAWRENCE BOOTH
Last updated at 12:52 AM on 31st August 2010
The £4,000 cheque that Mohammad Aamer picked up at Lords on Sunday as Pakistans player of the series underlined his countrys status as the poor relations of world cricket.
It would be small change for most international cricketers, but is more than three times the £1,300 he earns a month from his Pakistan Cricket Board contract.
Although the Pakistanis are thought to pick up around £3,000 per Test, that is still half as much as the English and Australian players.
Even the more experienced Mohammad Asif - the other Pakistan fast bowler implicated in the no-ball scandal - receives relatively little.
Despite being in the highest of the three categories used by the PCB to determine
payments, Asif picks up less than £1,900 a month - roughly the same as a young
cricketer playing his first game for India.
That can rise with match fees and win bonuses, but even then the Pakistanis lag behind every other Test-playing nation bar Bangladesh, where top players get about £1,000 a month.Englands top centrally contracted cricketers, by contrast, are understood to be paid in the region of £250,000-£400,000 a year, while the top-earning South Africans are paid more than £100,000 for central contracts.
IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE: THE CENTRAL CONTRACTS
Australia: £400,000
England: £400,000
South Africa: £105,000
India: £82,500
West Indies: £77,250
Sri Lanka: £77,250
Pakistan: £22,500
Bangladesh: £12,000
Figures per player, per year
Even the best-paid West Indians, who operate under a cash-strapped board, get a retainer of nearly £80,000. And the Pakistanis sense of grievance may be fuelled by the riches of neighbours and rivals India.
The best Indian players, such as Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, earn a basic salary of more than £80,000 - a figure that soars with match and tour fees, sponsorship deals and Indian Premier League contracts.
Indias young pace bowler Ishant Sharma, who turns 22 on Tuesday, earned around £4,000 for each of the 150 balls he sent down in this years IPL - a competition the Pakistanis are banned from playing in for political reasons.
Even more gallingly for the Pakistanis, cricketers from other nations - riding on the
back of an increase in player power - are now paid a percentage of their boards
annual income.
Indian cricketers pick up 26 per cent of their boards takings, the Australians 25 per cent and South Africans 20 per cent. Once all payments and endorsements are taken
into account, leading South African cricketers take home close to £1million a year.
Pakistan betting scandal: Cricket's great pay gap | Mail Online
By LAWRENCE BOOTH
Last updated at 12:52 AM on 31st August 2010
The £4,000 cheque that Mohammad Aamer picked up at Lords on Sunday as Pakistans player of the series underlined his countrys status as the poor relations of world cricket.
It would be small change for most international cricketers, but is more than three times the £1,300 he earns a month from his Pakistan Cricket Board contract.
Although the Pakistanis are thought to pick up around £3,000 per Test, that is still half as much as the English and Australian players.
Even the more experienced Mohammad Asif - the other Pakistan fast bowler implicated in the no-ball scandal - receives relatively little.
Despite being in the highest of the three categories used by the PCB to determine
payments, Asif picks up less than £1,900 a month - roughly the same as a young
cricketer playing his first game for India.
That can rise with match fees and win bonuses, but even then the Pakistanis lag behind every other Test-playing nation bar Bangladesh, where top players get about £1,000 a month.Englands top centrally contracted cricketers, by contrast, are understood to be paid in the region of £250,000-£400,000 a year, while the top-earning South Africans are paid more than £100,000 for central contracts.
IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE: THE CENTRAL CONTRACTS
Australia: £400,000
England: £400,000
South Africa: £105,000
India: £82,500
West Indies: £77,250
Sri Lanka: £77,250
Pakistan: £22,500
Bangladesh: £12,000
Figures per player, per year
Even the best-paid West Indians, who operate under a cash-strapped board, get a retainer of nearly £80,000. And the Pakistanis sense of grievance may be fuelled by the riches of neighbours and rivals India.
The best Indian players, such as Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, earn a basic salary of more than £80,000 - a figure that soars with match and tour fees, sponsorship deals and Indian Premier League contracts.
Indias young pace bowler Ishant Sharma, who turns 22 on Tuesday, earned around £4,000 for each of the 150 balls he sent down in this years IPL - a competition the Pakistanis are banned from playing in for political reasons.
Even more gallingly for the Pakistanis, cricketers from other nations - riding on the
back of an increase in player power - are now paid a percentage of their boards
annual income.
Indian cricketers pick up 26 per cent of their boards takings, the Australians 25 per cent and South Africans 20 per cent. Once all payments and endorsements are taken
into account, leading South African cricketers take home close to £1million a year.
Pakistan betting scandal: Cricket's great pay gap | Mail Online
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.....but i donnt think PCB Will.....
