Top 10 International Teams and their Highest-Paid Cricketers

Over the years the game has evolved in various aspects and one of them is the change in the salary structure of different cricket authorities. The professionalism of the sport has reached a new level. Now with the advent of T20 leagues, it has become necessary that the stars are provided with a proper share of the profit earned by the cricket boards in order to maintain harmony.

Since the last decade, most of the players earn a lot of money from the commercial world. Among them, the established ones get lucrative deals but the newbies are solely dependent on the central contracts. There are various websites that publish these data and Sports eon and Sports maza are a couple of them from where the references are taken for this article.

Here is the list of 10 international teams and their highest-paid player:

1) Rashid Khan – Afghanistan (INR 73 lakhs)

Afghanistan has grown leaps and bounds in terms of quality of cricket played over the years. And the one man who has contributed immensely in their rise is leg-spinner Rashid Khan. The Afghan bowler has been a pillar of their bowling unit. On the back of his impressive performances, he has led Afghanistan to victories single-handedly on countless occassions.

Recently, he was also handed over the leadership duties by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) after Asghar Afghan and Mohammad Nabi gave up their captaincies, respectively. As the skipper, he is the highest paid cricketer by the ACB. With a hike in salaries by the ACB, the spin maestro draws an annual salary of INR 73 lakh.