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Players at IPL showered with Dollars

All the teams have played five matches each in the first season of IPL. In fact, it can be safely assumed that the first phase of the IPL is over, some players have left, where as some have just joined their respective teams.

Here we try to give you a break down of how individual players, those who have left the shores of India, have performed vis-a-vis the amount of their contract. In fact, since the money earned by players is on a pro-rata basis, we will try and use a simple formula to decide what is the kind of impact that each of these players have had.

The total sum of the contract would be divided by the maximum number of matches a player can play. Here we assume that we do not take the knockout stage into consideration. So every contract amount would be divided by 14 (the number of matches that can be played by each player), which would give us the player fee per match. This would then be multiplied by the number of matches a particular actually played before leaving the Indian shores.

To better explain this in figures, lets assume that a player has a contract worth $140,000, and he plays four matches. That would mean that his per match fee is 140,000/14, i.e. $10,000. Since he has played in four matches, he would stand to gain 4 X $10,000, which is equal to $40,000. So if a batsman scores 100 runs in the tournament before making way for another player, he gets paid, $40,000/100 per run, which is equal to a whopping $400 every run scored! The same rules apply for the bowlers too.

The following is the list of cricketers who have returned, the Aussies on their way to a pre-tour camp for their tour to the Caribbean islands, where as the New Zealand team will be touring England.

• Andrew Symonds (Deccan Chargers, $1,350,000),
• Brett Lee (Kings XI Punjab, $900,000),
• Ricky Ponting (Kolkata Knight Riders, $400,000),
• Mathew Hayden (Chennai Super Kings, $375,000),
• Mike Hussey (Chennai Super Kings, $350,000),
• Simon Katich (King XI Punjab, $200,000),
• Ashley Noffke (Bangalore Royal Challengers, $50,000),
• Brendon McCullum (Kolkata Knight Riders, $700,000),
• Jacob Oram (Chennai Super Kings, $675,000),
• Daniel Vettori (Delhi Dare Devils, $625,000),
• Kyle Mills (Kings XI Punjab, $150,000),
• Ross Taylor (Bangalore Royal Challengers, $100,000)

Out of the above cricketers, Kyle Mills is the only cricketer not to have played a single match before getting to the country. And since we are not taking the player daily allowances into account, we can safely say that he earned no money out of the contract to neither score a run, nor pick up a wicket!

Jacob Oram was the costliest batsman from amongst the above at $37500/run, but then one needs to take into consideration that he also bowled all his overs in all the matches, and managed to scalp 3 wickets. Amongst the rest, Ricky Ponting was – expectedly – the costliest batsman in terms of dollars earned per run scored, at $10250/run scored, where as Ross Taylor was the best in the business earning only $670 per run scored. Here is the list of the rest of the players.

Figure 1: Batsmen

Figure 2: Bowlers

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