Ricky Ponting is a massive hypocrite. Not long ago he was complaining about too much cricket and the player burnout issue, and now he signs himself up for some wham-bang tournament that will see him earn quite a bit of money. Tool.
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That's the ICL.
Pak_cricketer
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aussie_ben91
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It's still stupid. A competition like this will probably make me lose interest in cricket because it's Twenty20 which is a waste of time and International Tests & ODI's will go to hell.
Who'd watch this anyway? You get all of these great players and the chances are you'll only see them perform for only acouple of overs because the format is only limited to 20 overs a side.
sohum
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He probably makes a ton from prize money.
I think he realized how conditioned he had become to playing cricket all the time since Australia has really had an empty schedule the last couple of months.
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Haha, are you serious? Because if Ponting really reacts that way due to not playing cricket for a little while, then he's even more stupid than I thought. Wait until Australia get in the middle of their season and have a jam-packed schedule.
sohum
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Then it'll be back to complaining.
What's awesome is that all the Aussies that are signing up for this "hit-and-giggle" tournament.
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Sureshot is correct though, CA uses a performance-based payscale to determine retainers. The base contract 18 months ago was AU$150k and though it has likely inflated by some margin, that is still the base contract for fringe players who have no performance to speak of; Ponting is likely paid AU$500k, plus various prizes, awards, match fees and tour fees. Australian players also have an agreement that grants Test players 25% of gate takings from home games.
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He probably makes a ton from prize money.
I think he realized how conditioned he had become to playing cricket all the time since Australia has really had an empty schedule the last couple of months.
Michael Vaughan as England captain is on a central contract worth 100,000 Sterling as year as the minimal payment. He is the top earner obviously as captain. He earns on top of that ?2,500 per game in match fee. He also gets all travel covered and hotel stays paid for by the ECB, on top of that he gets an ECB funded car and recieves all his Sponsored gear for free, GM Cricket, England training kits, Asics shoes, Skins baselayers. etc. He would of course recieve fees over ?2000 a game for Man Of the Matches.
On top of this even he also recieves all the money for any other work he does for companies in an advertising sense. Although he's not a big earner in terms of being the advertising player for a campaign. Others such as KP recieve much more for Watch sponsorships etc and putting his name on products. He is also paid by GM to use their products and revieves a fee from the company who sticker the bottom on his bat, last summer it was Barclays.
It's safe to say that Vaughan earns ?300,000 plus a year with everying added, with no fees taken away for travel or neccerssary equipment. So considering that England is supposedly the closest pay relation to what the Aussie's get, I imagine Ponting is also around the same mark as Vaughan, possibly more depending on how much advertising work Ponting does in Australia, he'll obvious recieve a large sum from Codemasters, for Ricky Ponting International Cricket etc.
Source your articles please.
