With ICC World Cup 2019 into its business end, fans are enjoying their teams partaking at the multi-nation event. To atop it, cricket is a lucrative business, and it’s also about those multi-million dollar deals apart from fat paychecks for the coaches.
In many cases, the high-profile coaches have inspired their wards — to help their teams to bask the glory. The head coaches are making money, which also makes them stand high on the financial table.
Over the years, the marketing boost in cricket has further given coaches leverage to enjoy the top-brass post. Also, the excellent show of teams has further helped coaches in the extension of their respective contracts, which is subsequently publicised.
In the global cricket, the players have already topped the charts in terms of being highest-paid cricketers which includes Team India skipper, Virat Kohli.
Unsurprisingly, when it comes to the cashing as a cricket coach, the gentleman’s game is also in that top drawer – to allow such coaches to earn in millions.
Over the years, cricket has evolved. Teams have made most of the enormous opportunities in modern-day cricket. With the change in tourneys, the world cricket has also given job security to cricketers – to make a living as a coach after representing their respective countries as a cricketer. Predominantly, it also saw coaches play a dynamic role in shouldering the responsibility, whether in terms of strategies or imbibing a culture which has been a norm in a nutshell.
Sportzwiki here compiles the information regarding the top-earning coaches. Also, it becomes pertinent that the coaches also earn bonuses. And, what’s visible in contemporary cricket, it’s also about the coaches.
Here are the top 10 highest-paid cricket coach:
Lalchand Rajput, Zimbabwe Coach (34.69 lakh):
Former Team India cricketer Lalchand Rajput has played a quintessential role for the Zimbabwean. But they’ve failed to qualify in the quadrennial event in England. Rajput is keen to help the African team in the foreseeable future.
The Zimbabwean team has set their entire focus on T20 qualifiers before the Twenty20 World Cup will begin in the final quarter of the year 2020.
Rajput, who has succeeded Heath Streak in 2018, has himself urged to take set a new benchmark. He is earning 34.69 lakhs per annum which makes him a tenth most paid cricket coach in the international fold.
The 57-year-old Mumbai-born Rajput has featured in four ODIs and two Tests between 1985 and 1987.
In 2007, Rajput had served as a manager for team India when the then MS Dhoni-led Men in Blue lifted the inaugural T20 title.