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Performance-based bribes for England
By Will 2 months ago, 5 Comments »
England’s players netted a bonus of £180,000 for their series-win over New Zealand a few days ago. It’s a fair chunk of money, on top of their already comfortable salaries and extra advertising deals with the likes of Adidas. The Indian Premier League, however, has blown salaries and players’ monetary expectations out of the water, which has prompted the ECB to raise the series bonuses to £2m. It is effectively a performance-based bribe: do well for us in Tests, the ECB say, and you’ll be handsomely rewarded. Don’t worry about that silly Indian thing: beat the South Africans and we’ll buy you all iPhones and cars.
It’s a fair old whack, and a reasonable gesture by the ECB, but the newly sized pot surely can’t dissuade players from considering the IPL, can it? Over in India players are promised hundreds of thousands, even if they fail abysmally. Money talks, as that awesome AC/DC song says, but can Test cricket genuinely hope to match the new money offered by Indian leagues (and the new Champions League)?
Your thoughts?
5 Comments »Mercy: cricket more popular than Paris Hilton
By Will last year, mid-December, 2 Comments »
I think this might be interesting (haven’t made my mind up yet). Google produce an annual zeitgeist to list the most popular keywords, themes and topics the world have been searching for in the past year. Amazingly, 2007’s world cup was the fourth most wanted - behind Britney Spears but ahead of things like the iPhone, Anna Nicole Smith (who?) and Paris Hilton.
Fair enough, it’s not exactly Trevor but noteworthy nonetheless.
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