World Cup 2019: Team-wise combined salaries of all players

2. Afghanistan | $105,000 (around INR 72.82 lakhs)

There isn’t a highly formalised central contract scheme for Afghanistan players. Apparently, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) pays its cricketers on a monthly basis. The pay is high for the senior cricketers while it scales down for the relatively new cricketers. When Asghar Afghan was the captain of the team, he was the highest paid cricketer in the team. But since there are three different captains for three formats now, the situation might be slightly different.

Indian giant Amul is now the principal sponsor of Afghanistan cricket for the World Cup. There are a few other sponsors for the team as well and thus the revenue that the board generates has increased. As per the reports in SportsMaza, the monthly salaries for these cricketers range from $700 to $400. Thus, on average, it is about $550 dollars per month and that sums up to around $6,600 per cricketer for an annual year. If we round that off to $7,000 (Rs 4.86 lakhs) keeping various bonuses and additional salaries for the captains in mind, the squad earns about $105,000 dollars per year.