Clarke new million dollar cricketer
Michael Clarke has replaced his skipper Ricky Ponting as the highest earning cricketer in the Australian team according to an estimate, which puts his salary to 1.01 million US dollars.
The calculations are based on 12 months of estimated earnings from December 1, 2007.
Last year, Ponting had emerged as the highest paid cricketer.
But it was only Clarke's workload that steered him ahead of Ponting, who is closely chasing him at 992,280 dollars for the year. Clarke featured in 36 out of 37 games Australia played.
Only Mike Hussey played all the games, and 329,970 dollars in match fees saw his payday get past Brett Lee, a man believed to be the number two rank but not so due to less number of matches.
According to Daily Telegraph, base salaries of the top 25 contracted Australian cricketers start at 160,000 dollars and end with Ponting at a sum believed to be 800,000 dollars.
"The base salaries drop at intervals of approximately 50,000 dollars according to rankings, and men who play in all forms of the game occupy the top tier," the newspaper said.
"On top of this, players are paid match fees that can boost their wage by more than 300,000 dollars a year if they play the majority of Tests, one-dayers and Twenty20 games. A Test is worth 12,750 dollars and 50/20-overs cricket pays 5100 dollars -- and both attract overseas loading." According to the report, most top Aussie batsmen pocket somewhere between 600 dollars and 700 dollars a run. Because of his workload, Hussey represents best value, costing CA only 619 dollars for every run.
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