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Cricketers are getting insured to save their IPL riches

 
ponderiver 2019-03-21 11:31:23 

IPL riches have to be protected

Overseas cricketers in this year’s Indian Premier League have been scrambling to insure themselves for massive sums because the rewards are greater than ever.



IPL players now earn more for one match than in any other sport in the world –
with the recent global sports salary survey suggesting they receive a pro-rated £274,624 per game on average, far ahead of the NFL (£138,354) and the Premier League (£78,703)
.

buh bye West Indies hello IPL

 
Tryangle 2019-03-21 11:50:22 

In reply to ponderiver

pro-rated £274,624 per game on average


Good freaking lord shock shock shock

 
ponderiver 2019-03-21 12:37:02 

In reply to Tryangle

Now you can see why certain players dont want to run the risk getting injured on international cricket duty

 
navindesigns 2019-03-21 12:41:05 

why would anyone in the right minds choose WICB over IPL

these guys have a life after cricket

 
Khaga 2019-03-21 12:45:05 

Fork you all IPL skeptics of this MB! You know who you are, dimwits!

 
Yamfoot 2019-03-21 22:33:57 

And that if they injure their knee, say, during a Test or one-day series beforehand and aren’t able to play, they could easily forfeit a six or seven-figure sum.”

 
Scar 2019-03-21 23:52:41 

In reply to Yamfoot

Those figures sound kinda funny Yammie. Kohli made US$2.67M last year in the IPL and Sunil made $1.7M. Thats for a season and Narine was the highest paid WI player. That doesnt seem close to EPL or any Major World sporting salary max for the top players. Doesnt OZ pay US$1M to each Test player?
A baseball player just signed a US$440M 10 year contract. I doubt the IPL generates the type of money NFL, NBA, EPL does to pay those sums per game. And if Kohli plays 10 games he gets $267,000 per as the highest paid. So where does the poster get that $200,000 plus average per.

 
POINT 2019-03-21 23:55:52 

In reply to ponderiver

The Answer really aint complicated

THOSE WHO WANT LOYALTY HAVE TO

DEMONSTRATE LOYALTY TO OTHERS .

LOYALTY DEFINITELY AINT A ONE WAY

STREET .

 
vicky 2019-03-22 06:32:13 

That's great amount man!! Check out the IPL 2019 Match Schedule here. big grin big grin

Feeling excited to watch Chris Gayle in action again!

 
ponderiver 2019-03-22 07:08:41 

In reply to vicky

Feeling excited to watch Chris Gayle in action again!


This will probably be his last season,it will be a sad day for cricket no other player creates as much anticipation and excitement as the much maligned man from Kingston Jamaica

 
Tryangle 2019-03-22 10:27:25 

In reply to Scar

Could there be signing bonuses at play like the NFL?

Regarding the revenue generated by the IPL compared to US pro sports leagues, it seems like the TV sponsors are forking out big cash for the rights, not to mention that the amount of willing billboard, kit and other sponsors in India appears to be limitless.

 
Scar 2019-03-22 18:49:09 

In reply to Tryangle

Signing bonuses are part of tbe total contract paid by teams. Doesnt matter where teams het their money-they pay the players directly. Players make their own outside contracts on Ads etc with private &commercial entities. Their rights are theirs unlike some cricket Boards taking player shares. In the,EPl the average player pay is £70,000 per game/week or $140,000 plus a week/game or for 90 minutes a game/week. The RedSo× just signed a pitcher today $150M for 5 years or $30M a year @ $1M a game.Yikes. That man making $1M for 4 hours of work a week. Those other sports have more fan outreach for Sponsorship than cricket & more sponsors than cricket of any kind will have. As much as we love our cricket the fan base is not limitless or as wide as other sports hence less moolah to throw away

 
Tryangle 2019-03-22 21:35:24 

In reply to Scar

On fan outreach, that's where I think cricket has a slight leg up on US sport. NFL, MLB have the 300 mil in the US, plus chunks from Spanish-speaking Latin America, Japan and bits elsewhere. IPL has 1 bil in India plus bits and pieces elsewhere. Of course MLB and NFL are actively trying to expand its reach while ICC is concentrating inward, but that's another matter.

Football of course can dwarf all.

But I do see your point on massive multi-year deals in other pro sports, especially the deals that Machado, Trout and Harper have gotten of late. A billion freaking bucks between them. Insane smile

 
Dooglar 2019-03-24 00:03:06 

In reply to ponderiver

Ngidi muss be kicking heself..

 
camos 2019-03-24 09:12:39 

In reply to Scar

Their rights are theirs unlike some cricket Boards taking player shares. In the,EPl the average player pay is £70,000 per game/week or $140,000 plus a week/game or for 90 minutes a game/week. The RedSo× just signed a pitcher today $150M for 5 years or $30M a year @ $1M a game.Yikes


thinking is flawed, you have 5 days of practice and one day watching film, think players just step on the field and play,stil a lot of money?

 
positiveg 2019-03-24 09:32:34 

In reply to camos

Plus sometimes back to back games etc

The thing is that many people think these guys any athlete for that matter just starts to pull in the money forgets the hard work that goes into that
Hence why I admire we WI players so much, we got less to work with and then be still making the big bucks.
And my aim is that these guys realise the importance of playing the long game, so really saving. Cause it will be funny to see we make way less than them and still end up living better than them in we older years.

Cause many people here say oh go make you money forget WI cricket forget this and that, but no advice to money management etc.

 
camos 2019-03-24 09:46:20 

In reply to positiveg

The thing is that many people think these guys any athlete for that matter just starts to pull in the money forgets the hard work that goes into that



people overlook the risk involve in a sport career, lots of time is just luck that separate success from failure. So many stories of a coach or scout just stumbling on a good player who would have fallen through the cracks.

 
positiveg 2019-03-24 10:30:50 

In reply to camos

people overlook the risk involve in a sport career, lots of time is just luck that separate success from failure. So many stories of a coach or scout just stumbling on a good player who would have fallen through the cracks.


Truth
there will be many athletes but few successful ones.
and you always hear stories of those who were better than some but never got the chance, to, or rigth attitude to.
So there's all that.
So when I see what, 8, maybe 9 Windians in the IPL that makes me proud.
They didn't get their by mistake, and ach of them was in some way exposed through the WI system, as bad as it is.
SO when people make claims like these guys suddenly appeared on the radar without any input, directly or indirectly, by WIndies cricket is laughable at best.
They should do all they can to monetize for the future but they must always remember where they came from. One stint in the CPL won't give a IPL scout a good look at giving you a big contract in the IPL. These guys had got their exposure through playing for the West Indies so all these claims of forgetting to play International. The young ones now got to understand that like in everything in life, finding the right balance brings happiness.