Playing Cricket? It's Not A Bad Little Earner...
We knew today’s international cricketers were coining it, but how many knew that some were getting U$20,000 (£15,100) for a Test match fee? It isn’t England’s players either, they come in just shy of that mark though they do earn the most for playing T20 internationals, some U$5,284 (£4,000) for three hours of their time according to figures unearthed by Cricinfo.
Framed this way, it looks like money for old rope – an expression Dale Steyn sort of used when he first played in the Indian Premier League. “Just four overs a match and it doesn’t matter if you get slogged around the park. It’s the easiest money you’ll ever make,” is what he said.
It was a refreshing if trite comment and one he quickly back-pedalled on. The best players only reach this rarefied point due to their talent and the years of hard work and sacrifice that have gone into refining it. They also have shorter careers than most in the commercial world, so need to earn big while they can, though that argument could change as Artificial Intelligence and robotics threaten to consign more of the wider workforce to pasture at an early age.
This story is from the October 20,2017 edition of The Cricket Paper.
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