Kolkata Knight Riders players observe with the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 trophy aft winning the last lucifer against Sunrisers Hyderabad astatine MA Chidambaram Stadium, successful Chennai. (PTI)
The Board of Control for Cricket successful India caput Jay Shah connected Saturday announced that the players successful the Indian Premier League volition get Rs 7.5 lakhs lucifer interest per crippled and a cricketer who plays each the league matches successful the full play tin pouch up to Rs 1.05 crore. This, successful summation to the aforementioned players’ contracted magnitude with their respective franchise.
“In a historical determination to observe consistency and champion outstanding performances successful the IPL, we are thrilled to present a lucifer interest of INR 7.5 lakhs per crippled for our cricketers! A cricketer playing each league matches successful a play volition get Rs. 1.05 crores successful summation to his contracted amount,” Shah stated connected X.
“Each franchise volition allocate INR 12.60 crores arsenic lucifer fees for the season! This is simply a caller epoch for the IPL and our players,” helium added.
The determination means that IPL volition beryllium introducing the conception of lucifer interest for the archetypal clip successful its history. Since its inception successful 2008, the league has imbibed the conception of players earning connected the ground of their auction price.
The lucifer interest announced for IPL games (per match) is astir 20 times a cricketer earns portion playing a first-class lucifer successful India.
Per the revised operation introduced by the Indian cricket committee successful 2021, a first-class cricketer successful India earns Rs 40,000 per lucifer time (for 1 to 20 matches), Rs 50,000 per lucifer time (for 21 to 40 matches), and Rs 60,000 per lucifer time (for 40+ matches).