Cricket Australia offers Multi-year Contracts to make players sit out of IPL

May 11, 2017 at 1:29 PM

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Cricket Australia offers Multi-year Contracts to make players sit out of IPL

IPL, over the years, has been quite popular not only due to its cricket extravaganza but also the monetary value attached to it in comparison to other T20 leagues in the world. International cricketers had been on a roster of teams and often get a huge sum of money sometimes more than desi Indian stars.

Cricket Australia has now allegedly come up with multi-year contracts before the country’s stars in an effort to convince them to stay away from the riches of the Indian Premier League for the next three years. Test captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and fast bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins were contacted individually recently with verbal offers of three-year deals on the condition that they sit out the IPL.

Pat Howard, CA’s newly re-signed executive general manager of team performance, came up with the idea along with consent from Cricket Australia, cricket’s governing body in the country. The offers were not received well from the players. According to them, it was not much in comparison to the IPL.

It seemed quite less in fact. This offer can change after the CA board discussed at last Friday’s meeting the introduction of financial compensation to wrest international players away from the IPL.

Smith and Warner, who captain their IPL franchises, collect more than $1 million a year for the Twenty20 tournament, along with it several brand endorsements and also other post-match shows that make the players pay double.

The second-ranked player in CA’s 2017-18 contract list behind Smith, on retainer list with CA – David Warner is estimated to be worth $2 million but he could conceivably earn as much as $10 million in the IPL alone over the next three years.

Starc who left for Champions Trophy could also command upwards of $3 million a year. With the memorandum of understanding between CA and players to expire on June 30 and no sign of a resolution on the horizon, the approaches by Howard have been viewed suspiciously by the players’ union.

The international schedule in 2019, which includes an Ashes series and a World Cup, is chiefly in mind for Howard in his efforts to ensure players have a proper off-season.Champions Trophy just after IPL ends. Meanwhile, sources close to the negotiations between CA and the ACA, which are due to resume on Friday, are doubtful that a new MOU will be signed before the end of June as both sides refuse to budge.

Australia is to host England in a Test series from November but unless there is a new agreement in place by June Australian players are likely to refuse to do any Ashes promotions in England during the Champions Trophy.

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