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Eric Le Merde said:
I don't believe there is any rule that stops English players playing for states in the Sheffield Shield, but is starts late Sept and the pay isn't that great. There are quite a few playing T20, Big bash, cricket though.
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In the olden days when English cricketers were on six month contracts and had to get a job for the winter quite a few went to Oz to play grade cricket. I had a mate who played for Somerset for years who played for Fremantle CC for a season or two. Now they have a minimum wage for playing county cricket (£27,500 pa, cut to £24k during the pandemic) which is hardly generous but a lot more than they used to get. England players now get up to £650k for a Test central contract, £300k for a white ball contract and up to £200k end of season bonus. Which is clearly working ****ing brilliantly, why would they bother to improve themselves? Especially when they get IPL and Big Bash cash chucked at them as well.
 
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sb_73 said:
In the olden days when English cricketers were on six month contracts and had to get a job for the winter quite a few went to Oz to play grade cricket. I had a mate who played for Somerset for years who played for Fremantle CC for a season or two. Now they have a minimum wage for playing county cricket (£27,500 pa, cut to £24k during the pandemic) which is hardly generous but a lot more than they used to get. England players now get up to £650k for a Test central contract, £300k for a white ball contract and up to £200k end of season bonus. Which is clearly working ****ing brilliantly, why would they bother to improve themselves? Especially when they get IPL and Big Bash cash chucked at them as well.
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Wow. Pat Cummins, for example, gets A$550,000 per year as a retainer to play for Australia and then A$20k for a test match, A$15k for a ODI and A$10k for a T20 game similar low levels for state v county cricket and Big Bash contracts of up to A$250k. Your cricketers seem to get paid a lot more than ours.
 
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Eric Le Merde said:
Wow. Pat Cummins, for example, gets A$550,000 per year as a retainer to play for Australia and then A$20k for a test match, A$15k for a ODI and A$10k for a T20 game similar low levels for state v county cricket and Big Bash contracts of up to A$250k. Your cricketers seem to get paid a lot more than ours.
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But they are so much better, of course.
 
Eric Le Merde said:
Wow. Pat Cummins, for example, gets A$550,000 per year as a retainer to play for Australia and then A$20k for a test match, A$15k for a ODI and A$10k for a T20 game similar low levels for state v county cricket and Big Bash contracts of up to A$250k. Your cricketers seem to get paid a lot more than ours.
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But they're convicts, we should still have them breaking rocks :emoticon-0100-smile
 
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ICC Cricketer of the Year 2021?

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2433841

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Not bitter at all that there is only one Australian in all the nominees, no not in the slightest.

The category that got me though was:

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But, as I say, not even a little bit bent out of shape, no sir. You wouldn't find me quoting the ICC's ranking back at them

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Some olden day images of young Australians playing cricket.

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Slums of Redfern, Sydney, on July 5, 1948


Crowds in the stands at the SCG for the NSW-England Test Cricket, November 10, 1928.CREDIT:FAIRFAX

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