PCB to get 12.5 million dollars compensation windfall

November 8th, 2009 more images more images MELBOURNE - Australian captain Ricky Ponting will get the lion's share of a 20.3 million dollar bonus windfall in spite of his team losing the Ashes series to England this year and a tumble down the Test rankings. A new pay deal is set to deliver an average of a million dollars a year to each of the 25 centrally contracted players.

October 23rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - With the mega-rich Champions League on the verge of conclusion, Australian champions New South Wales (NSW) are perplexed with the "mind-boggling" money which they will earn out of it. NSW, who defeated Victoria in the semi-finals, have already been guaranteed a pay cheque of 1.3 million dollars for merely reaching the decider.

September 22nd, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Former cricket administrator and current player agent Arthur Turner has predicted that the Proteas are the favourites to win the ICC Champions Trophy irrespective of history and perceptions. They are not only the No 1 ranked ODI team in the world, but there is daylight between them and the chasing pack.

September 7th, 2009 Kolkata, Sep 7 (IBNS) According to the Forbes, Indian cricket skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the richest international cricketer with annual earning of around Dollars 10 million. The Forbes said Dhoni earns Dollars 8 million in endorsements, from several endorsements.

September 1st, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt was off the mark when he claimed last week that Pakistan would receive around Rs 1.5 billion (18 million dollars) from the International Cricket Council (ICC) after settling its 2011 World Cup dispute with the game's governing body. "The PCB stands to gain about Rs.1 billion (12 million dollars) from its deal with the ICC that was struck in Dubai last week," sources said.

August 31st, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's cricket chief Ijaz Butt was off the mark when he claimed last week that Pakistan will receive around Rs.1.5 billion ($18 million) from the International Cricket Council (ICC) after settling its 2011 World Cup dispute with the games governing body, sources said Monday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stands to gain about Rs.1 billion ($12 million) from its deal with the ICC that was struck in Dubai last week.

August 28th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) hopes to receive up to 18 million dollars from the International Cricket Council (ICC) over the stripping of hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup, its chairman Ijaz Butt said on Friday. "At the moment the figure is around rupees one billion (12 million dollars) but I hope it could go up to rupees 1.5 billion (18 million dollars) by the time World Cup begins in 2011," Butt told reporters in Lahore.

August 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Champions League T20 (CLT20) governing council Tuesday clarified the rules relating to players who have qualified for multiple teams for the inaugural tournament starting October 8. Under CLT20 rules, if a player qualifies for more than one team, all those qualifying teams can nominate that player.

August 16th, 2009 MELBOURNE - He may have retired from Test cricket, but former leg spinner Shane Warne is still earning mega bucks through endorsements, a commentary career and a six million dollar annual income. The man recognized as Australia's greatest and most controversial bowler has been reinvented as Warne Incorporated, a one-man marketing machine whose image is being used to sell everything from beer to cricket to hair transplants.

July 19th, 2009 SYDNEY - Shane Warne has reportedly paid a whopping 3.35 million dollars for a property in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, on Port Phillip Bay. It is believed that Warne and former wife Simone Callahan planned to build a family home on the property following reports their rollercoaster relationship had been revived, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

July 16th, 2009 PORT OF SPAIN - The crisis is West Indies cricket is getting deeper every day with the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) demanding an apology from the country's board. Thirteen leading West Indies players, including captain Chris Gayle, have gone on strike and boycotted the first Test against Bangladesh over pending contract issues.

June 14th, 2009 LEICESTER - Australian fast bowler Brett Lee stands to pocket a two million cash bonanza from Cricket Australia's revised pay structure despite fears that his form is on the wane at the international level. Under an agreement struck between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association last Wednesday - as part of a new Memorandum of Understanding - Australia's top six stars will receive fixed-rate deals.

June 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Senior Australian cricketers could earn over 1.5 million dollars a year following a new pay deal agreed between Cricket Australia and the players' union. The pay deal, which increases the wages pool of CA's 25 contracted players by 13.1 per cent each year for two years, came the day Australia was ingloriously ejected from the World Twenty20 tournament in England after a heavy loss to Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge.

June 5th, 2009 SYDNEY - The value of Rajasthan Royals, the cheapest of eight franchises sold before the start of the Indian Premier League, has translated into a capital yield of 73 million dollars, making it the greatest one-year gain of any sports team in its first year of existence. Shane Warne's brilliant efforts in leading his group of unknown players to cricket's richest prize must surely rank him alongside Michael Jordan and David Beckham as a King Midas of team sports.

May 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Cricket World Cup to be staged in 2011 in the Indian sub-continent will cost around 40 to 50 million US dollars. This was the assessment by the tournament's sub-committee which met here last evening.