Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #1673 –
You do realise that there are 9 Australian players ‘retained’ by IPL teams as well as some coaches.
Given that CA has required our World Cup squad to attend a training camp that clashes with the IPL and there is an overlap with the Sheffield Shield, the number of Aussies involved seems surprisingly high.
That explains why two dozen of our best T20 cricketers didn't receive a bid, how many is in our WC squad again?
All sorts for excuses can be made for this, but the reality is Test and other International commitments have never stopped bids before because players only get paid if they actually play. These days guys could be in Mumbai playing IPL today and back for the domestic comp on the weekend.
Money talks!
And it's not just the IPL, T20 comps are becoming ubiquitous even privatised. Players can be in three different countries playing games in just a fortnight. Punter and Slater even joked about Ben Cutting's Frequent Flyer Pts on last nights Big Bash telecast! It puts pay to the idea they don't really make much money, with all the comps I heard players like Lynn made as much as $5M / $6M in a calender year, speculation was that his recent spate of injuries cost him more than $3M in lost earnings. Why would they play for Australia, the only country that can match these T20 wages for it's Test cricketers is India!
Put it this way, 3 years ago Lynn could have earned 1200% less by being Australia's Test Captain!