Top players are poised for astronomical IPL contracts of up to $15 million.
In a development that has the potential to rock cricket’s foundations, several of Australia’s leading players have been told the $US5 million salary cap for each IPL franchise will be abolished in future years.
That will create a free market where cashed-up Indian franchises will have no limits to their buying power and can splurge much more than the top IPL price of $1.65 million paid to Indian poster boy M. S. Dhoni this year.
As recently as last week, Dhoni told one senior Australian player he had been promised the IPL’s biggest names could expect extraordinary contracts of up to $14-15 million after the salary cap was abolished.
It has been reported that several IPL franchises are in a financial black hole, but two leading Australian players said yesterday their franchises were prepared to splurge many more millions.
Australia’s IPL stars gathered in Brisbane yesterday with the rest of their Test teammates where the pre-West Indies tour camp was abuzz with talk of the rivers of IPL gold.
Test opener Matthew Hayden confirmed he had heard the IPL salary cap would be wiped out in the future and said there seemed little doubt that player payments would go through the roof.
“From what I have heard, some of the stuff (payments) this year could be just the tip of the iceberg,” Hayden said.
News of the possible scrapping of the salary cap – and the potential for IPL players to be paid up to $15 million – will go down like a lead balloon in Cricket Australia offices.
There were already fears the huge IPL player payments could fracture world cricket by forcing current internationals to consider their future and potentially trade a baggy green cap for a financial bonanza in the IPL.
Players could be forced to choose between country and dollars next year, with the IPL set to clash with Australia’s Test tour of South Africa and a one-day series in Pakistan.
AUSTRALIA’S cricketers will spend the best part of four months in Britain during their 2009 Ashes tour.
The England and Wales Cricket Board yesterday released a fixtures list for the marathon tour, which includes the first one-day international to be held at Southampton’s Rose Bowl and back-to-back one-dayers at Old Trafford in Manchester.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23651750-2882,00.html
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