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

8. Pakistan | PKR 8,28,00,000 (around INR 3.91 crores)

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the central contracts for the cricketers in August 2018. All the 33 players who were awarded the contracts were divided into five categories. As per the new contracts, the salary for each of the category was increased between 25 and 30 per cent and also the Match Fees was increased by 20 per cent across categories. The new ‘Category E’ which has introduced rewards the top performers in domestic cricket.

As per the reports in SamaaTV, the board pays PKR 0.8 million (Rs 3.8 lakhs) per month for the Category A players. The remaining four categories get paid PKR 0.5 million (Rs 2.37 lakhs), PKR 0.35 million (Rs 1.6 lakhs), PKR 0.2 million and PKR 0.1 million per month respectively. All the players in the Pakistan World Cup squad except Mohammad Hasnain are centrally contracted. In total, they earn PKR 8,28,00,000 per year.

9. Australia | AUD 4,171,500 (around INR 20.26 crores)

Cricket Australia (CA) and Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) were involved in one of the biggest pay disputes of all-time. Earlier, the players used to get 26 per cent of the revenue share. But now, it has been agreed that 30 per cent of the revenue will be shared with the players. The agreed revenue is made up of 27.5 per cent of forecast revenue streams and a 2.5 per cent performance pool.

The base salary for a male international cricketer is now AUD 278,100 (Rs 1.34 crores) for the first year of this agreement. That will rise by 15.9 per cent in the last year of the agreement in 2021-2022 to AUD 313,004 (Rs 1.51 crores). The entire deal for the next five years is worth about AUD 500 million. Thus, only the base salary of the 15 cricketers in the Australian squad sums up to AUD 4,171,500 per year. The 13 cricketers who are a part of the central contract also get the revenue share above the base salary.

10. India | INR 62 crores (nearly $89.35k)

The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) is the richest cricket board in the world. 25 Indian cricketers, who were divided into four categories, were awarded the central contracts for 2019-20. The salaries of Indian players are quite high when compared to most of the other nations. Grade A+, A, B and C are paid INR 7 crores, INR 5 crores, INR 3 crores and INR 1 crore respectively.

14 out of the 15 players who are a part of the Indian World Cup squad have a central contract. Since Vijay Shankar is relatively new to the set-up, he is yet to earn his contract. The players in the India squad earn INR 62 crores combined. Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma – at INR 7 crores each – earn the highest salary in the team.

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