By baggygreenmania - 27 Oct 2018 8:54 AM
India Test squad: Virat Kohli (C), M Vijay, KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, Ravi Ashwin, Ravi Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
India Twenty20 squad: Virat Kohli (C), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant (wk), Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed
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By Paddles - 5 Dec 2018 11:18 AM
+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x[quote]Reckon most of our elite cricketers would expect hell to freeze over first before they sold themselves for the IPL dollar over Test cricket. Yes what you say about them buying whoever they want may have worked 40 years ago before Kerry came onto the scene and paid our top blokes what they deserved. Our Test boys are on record as saying that to don the Baggy Green is the pinnacle of the sport for them. With the money most are now earning they can afford to snub their noses at the dictatorial BCCI and its IPL"cash cow". 2m for playing tests for Aus or 10m for playing IPL... Goodbye test players... :P It is easy for them to talk big when the IPL pays less than CA, but when it significantly outpays them - you'll see the free market in action... Baggy Green is a Steve Waugh myth that even Mark Waugh, his twin, and Shane Warne, their star player, never bought into :P It's a hat. It's a great job. It's the best job maybe. But it's a job and if a better one comes along, it's no longer the best job... Would Bob Dylan go electric to sell more records? Would Elvis wear silly suits in Las Vegas to earn more money? Would John Travolta make B grade movies to earn more money? As ACDC said... Money talks... I am now going to go watch Shane Warne advertisements for India Pepsi, Pakistan Pepsi and Brett Lee songs for IPL... Sorry. the Baggy green is more than just a job. Not sure the threatened player's strike of last year really supports your argument here. :P Nor does the WSC revolution... Cricket is a livelihood to professional cricketers... The dispute was not so much about the players wanting more money but to maintain the current level. It was more about control. CA wanted to gouge that revenue to give more to grass roots cricket. That removed the control they had over the distribution of their wages. That is how I read it. The major sticking point is CA’s wish to move away from the 20-year-old revenue sharing model, which delivers as much as 26 per cent of cricket revenue back to the players, and instead control a player payment pool of around $500 million over the next five years. CA says it already spends 70 cents of every dollar it earns on the national team, and cricket’s growth is inhibited by having to share revenue. Being paid peanuts created the WSC revolution. As you say cricket is a cricketers livelihood. Our top players prior to 1977 were not much better off than our women cricketers were before they came under the umbrella of CA several years ago. Players were being paid $200 a test and Packer offered them $25,000 a year.
Even that is chicken feed these days. But the players said at the time it felt like Christmas.
I guess you can take loyalty just so far. I feel certain that every one of our blokes that joined WSC would have preferred to stay wearing the Baggy Green. earing a e Sure they may have. But at the end of the day money is always relevant in determining career and livelihood decisions... The capitalist world we live in promotes this determination. A few bob more, people may more readily accept the pay cut, but as you increase the pay difference, more and more will sell out...
Hesson earlier this year, just out of nowhere announced his instant retirement from NZC cricket. Again he claimed to want more time with his family.
And this is true. He will now work 3 months of the year in a based location (2 months coaching games, 1 month preparing for season and auction), instead of 6 to 9 all over the show, and earn a lot more money coaching in the IPL...
The Indian worship of cricketers and coaches goes beyond their own players too. They idolize all established international cricket personalities. It really is not the worst gig in the world for someone who wants to earn a buck out of cricket. Dhawan goes to Melbourne to escape the fame, Aus cricketers will be able to go there and be worshipped like Brett Lee was and still is...
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