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A total of 66 players were picked up from a pool of 200 during the Caribbean Premier League draft for the 2015 edition of the tournament. The former captain was among the ones chosen by six different franchises and was bought by St Kitts-Nevis.
Other Pakistani players bought include Shoaib Malik at $100,000 by Barbados Tridents, Sohail Tanvir at $80,000 by St Kitts-Nevis and Kamran Akmal at $30,000 by Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel.
Mahela Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga, Jacques Kallis and Ross Taylor are also some of the big international names chosen for the league.
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$150000/- ... Peanuts compared to IPL.
@usman777: Don't live in past glories. The coffers are empty these days.
@Haroon: do some research dear and then comment. Will help you.
And why is this the headline banner story???
usman777
Two words:
KHATTEY ANGUR!!
@Imad Shah. Akmal would be needed when matches would need to end in a predetermined fashion to make the tournament monetarily beneficial to all participating parties. If you catch me drift.
The amount is lower than IPL but higher than most Pakistani make in a lifetime. There are not enough millions in the world worthy of the premeditated, spiteful humiliation our heroes suffer in India. Finally, they brag so much it makes you want to give them the money back and disburse it among the 700 million that live for less that 1 dollar per day. The world's greatest, 20-20 players are going to continue to come up from our embattled homeland. Every 20-20 league without Pakistani players is incomplete without our talent or our innovations to enrich the game (reverse swing, doosra, teesra), chautha and panchwa are surely coming. Best to take talent elsewhere money is low but respect is high.
These matches are played early morning Pakistan time. The CPL just doesn't have the audience to attract investment. A Domestic players base price starts at $150K at the IPL. The highest paid player in 2008 was Andrew Symonds at $1.5M, that's 10 times the amount Afridi will make in CPL this year. Players like Dhoni, Ab devillers, V Kohli & Glenn Maxwell make atleast 15 times that amount. These marquee players are never auctioned so the media doesn't know the amount of money they are paid every year. A Marquee 20-20 player like Afridi wouldn't even bother with the CPL loose change if he was allowed to play the IPL. At the IPL, $150K could just be shirt money to warm the bench in India.
pitiful values. IPL players make millions. PCB let its players down.
@Haroon: LOL ..even Indian domestic players get more money than this in IPL..dont mock urself by showing ur ignorance ...foreign players get easily over 1 million USD in IPL...i wonder if u know any maths and know the difference between USD100,000 and USD 1000,000..and just to highlight one more thing that bigger players are getting even more than 2 million USD in IPL.
Kamran Akmal still playing ??? one of the worst wicketkeepers. Shaba Lala hope you do well in this tournament also good luck to sohail tanveer and shoaib malike
It is very important for positive image of Pakistan through these living legends. IPL is good but we should aim for other markets to create bigger followings and turn them into International stars when it comes to advertising revenues. . India and Pakistan already know (love/hate) each other too much. I think Pakistani players should prefer other countries around the globe to create more awareness of who real Pakistanis are! Proud of Shahid Afridi. . I agree with the commenter who says that we should highlight these events in Pakistan to generate revenue and repay our hosts in similar gesture.
hah, who needs IPL anyways!! Please show these matches live and generate some good revenue.