Cricket - Teams & Player Salaries

Since the inception of Twenty20 formate in Cricket, this sport has steadily been growing in rest of the world. Not only cricket is more of an global sport now but T20 format brought alot of money to the sport. Indian Premier League (IPL) became the most lucrative cricket domestic league where players are handed out massive contracts every year. We will track each of the top test nations and their players and how much salary they are getting both from their domestic competitions are also from central contracts handed to them by their national boards.

On average, a top cricket can earn around 5 to 10 crore INR ($500,000 to $1.2 million USD) in every season of IPL which takes place every year for month and half. That is on top of what most of these cricketers are also getting from their national boards which usually operate on the basis on Central Contracts offered to regular players who represent their national teams.