Salary Of Indian Cricketers 2017 – 10 Highest Paid Player In Indian Cricket Team

Have you ever wondered how much your favorite cricketers make from each match? According to recent news, BCCI has doubled the fee of cricketers for test matches.The Indian Cricket Players Salary system is divided into three class A, B, and C respectively. The grading system is especially for the players who perform well and can be promoted or demoted on the basis of their performance. The grading list is centrally controlled and observed under the BCCI.  The grade A players like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli & R. Ashwin earns Rs 1 crore ($190,000) per year as retainer ship fees plus 7 lakhs per Test, 3 lakhs per ODI and 1.5 lakhs per T20.Virat Kohli’s new contract with Royal Challengers Bangalore has helped him eclipse Mahinder Singh Dhoni as the highest paid cricket in the world. Dhoni held the top spot in terms of highest yearly income for best part of last 9 years largely becuase his highly lucrative domestic endorsement deals. Below is the list of top 10 highest paid cricketers around the world.

Salary of Indian Cricketers 2017 – 10 Highest Paid Players

1. Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli receives a retainer fee of Rs. 1 Crore. His salary for test matches is 15 lakhs Indian rupees and for one day is four lakhs Indian rupees. Kohli is a Grade A player and all Grade A players are given the privilege to make a retainer of 1 crore Indian rupees. The fact that he is the captain in all three formats makes Kohli the highest paid cricketer in the Indian team!Born and raised in Delhi, Kohli represented the city's cricket team at various age-group levels before making his first-class debut in 2006. He captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, and a few months later, made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was part of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test debut in 2011, and shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" by 2013 with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa. Having reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013,[5] Kohli also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). In 2014, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings and holds the position, as of January 2017.Kohli was appointed vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012, and handed over the Test captaincy following Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014. In early 2017, he became the limited-overs captain as well after Dhoni stepped down from the position. Kohli holds numerous Indian batting records including the fastest ODI century, the fastest batsman to 5,000 ODI runs and the fastest to 10 ODI centuries. He is only the second batsman in the world to have scored 1,000 or more ODI runs for four consecutive calendar years. Among the T20I world records held by Kohli are fastest batsman to 1,000 runs, most runs in a calendar year and most fifties in the format. He also holds the records of most runs in a single tournament of both the World Twenty20 and the IPL. He is the only batsman in the world to average more than 50 across all formats of international cricket.

2 Ashwin

Next is Ravichandran Ashwin with a salary of 1 crore as a retainer fee. His salary breaks down to a Test fee of 15 Lakh Indian Rupees, and a T-20 fee of 2 lakh Indian Rupees and for ODI he gets 4 Lakh Rs. for each match.Having achieved little success as an opening batsman at junior-level cricket, Ashwin dropped down the order and turned into an off break bowler. He made his first-class debut for Tamil Nadu in December 2006, and captained the team the following season. But it was not until the 2010 Indian Premier League in which he played for the Chennai Super Kings, that he came into the limelight with his economical bowling and earned his maiden international call-up in the limited-overs formats in June 2010. He was the leading wicket-taker and player of the tournament of the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa. He was also part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Later that year, he made his Test debut against West Indies and became the seventh Indian to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut. He took two five-wicket hauls and scored a century in that series and won the player of the series award. Ashwin continued to succeed in the subcontinent but proved to be less effective in other places like Australia and England. In a home Test series against Australia in 2013, he took 29 wickets, the most by any Indian bowler in a four-match Test series. The same year, he took his 100th Test wicket in his 18th match, becoming the fastest Indian bowler to the milestone and the fastest in the world in over 80 years. In November 2015, he became fastest Indian to 150 wickets as well during his 5 wicket haul against South Africa at Mohali. In September 2016, he became the fastest Indian and second overall to get 200 wickets by dismissing Kane Williamson in India's 500th test match

3. MS Dhoni

Dhoni is also a grade A player under BCCI contracts and takes 1 Crore Rs .as a retainer fee. He is a regular member of T20 and ODI team for which he gets 2 Lakh and 4 Lakh Rs. for every match.Dhoni holds numerous captaincy records such as most wins by an Indian captain in Tests and ODIs, and most back-to-back wins by an Indian captain in ODIs. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first-ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the final of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls handing India the victory for which he was awarded the Man of the Match. In June 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all three ICC limited-overs trophies (World Cup, Champions Trophy and the World Twenty20). After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he led the team to series wins in New Zealand and West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one position for the first time in the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India became the first team in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In the Indian Premier League, he captained the Chennai Super Kings to victory at the 2010 and 2011 seasons, along with wins in the 2010 and 2014 editions of Champions League Twenty20. He announced his retirement from Tests on 30 December 2014.
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4. Rahane

It is kind of interesting to note that Ajinkya Rahane has moved up on the list of best-paid Indian cricketers. He makes an excellent salary of 1 crore as a retainer fee. Rahane is a member of all three format – Test, ODI, and T20, although he doesn’t get to play every match.He  is an international cricketer who represents India and is the vice captain in the Test format of the game. He is a right-handed batsman who made his international debut in a Twenty20 International against England at Manchester in August 2011 and made his Test debut against Australia in March 2013.Rahane made his first-class debut in 2007–08 season and averaged an impressive 62.04 after 100 innings. Rahane scored over 1000 runs three times in his first five seasons. With batsman Shikhar Dhawan injuring his fingers, Rahane made his Test debut in the 2013 Border–Gavaskar Trophy. Rahane's first Test century came at Basin Reserve, Wellington against New Zealand.Rahane was named in the Test squad to play the West Indies in November 2011. Rahane was carried in the squad for 16 months and in his presence, he saw seven players make their debuts

5. Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma makes a total salary of around 1 crore 6 lakh Indian rupees. His retainer fee is 50 lakh Indian rupees. It is the amount paid to Grade B players. Sharma makes a lot of money through T-20 matches and ODI matches, of which he is a regular member.Rohit Sharma (born 9 May 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Jammu & Kashmir. He made his first-class debut in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy on 15 October 2015.[2] He made his List A debut on 10 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 2 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.The 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was the seventh and final season of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament in India. It was contested by 27 domestic cricket teams of India, divided into 4 groups.[1] Uttar Pradesh beat Baroda by 38 runs in the final and Uttar Pradesh remained unbeaten throughout the series

6. Shikhar Dhawan

Shikhar Dhawan makes a total salary of around one crore 3 lakh Indian rupees. His T-20 fee sums around 20 lakh Indian rupees and gets 15 lakh Indian Rupees for every test matches. Dhawan’s retainer fee is 50 lakh Indian rupees.Dhawan made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Australia in October 2010 at Visakhapatnam. His Test debut came against the same opposition in March 2013 at Mohali where he scored the fastest century by any batsman on Test debut (85 balls) and ended his innings with 187 runs from 174 balls. He was the leading run-scorer and the Man of the Tournament of 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in England, which India won. In August 2013, he recorded the then second highest individual score in a List A match when he scored 248 runs off 150 balls for India A against South Africa A at Pretoria. In November 2014, he became the fastest Indian batsman to reach the 2000-run mark in ODIs. He was the leading run-scorer for India and fifth highest run-scorer overall at the 2015 Cricket World Cup.He is a left-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm off break bowler, who plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. He played for the Indian Under-17 and Under-19 teams before making his first-class debut for Delhi in November 2004.

7. Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina makes a total salary of around 82 lakh Indian rupees. That includes his retainer fee of 50 Lakhs, Salary of 2 Lakhs for every T20 match and salary of 4 Lakh for ODI match. An aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler, he is considered as one of the best fielders in world cricket. He plays for Uttar Pradesh in all forms of domestic cricket and is the captain of Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League. He has also captained the Indian cricket team and is the second-youngest player to captain India. He is the first of two Indian batsmen to ever score a century in all three formats of international cricket. He is considered as one of the finest T20 batsman. However his Test career did not last long due to his aggressive approach with the bat.Raina made his ODI debut in July 2005 against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. However, his Test debut came about five years later, in July 2010, against the same opposition. He scored a hundred on his Test debut. He was a part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 World Cup.In 2000, Raina decided to play cricket and subsequently moved from his hometown Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (near New Delhi) to Lucknow, to attend the specialist government Sports College. He rose to become the captain of the Uttar Pradesh U-16s and came to prominence amongst Indian selectors in 2002, when he was selected at the age of 15 and a half years for the U-19 tour to England, where he made a pair of half-centuries in the U-19 Test matches.

8. Ishant Sharma

Ishant Sharma makes a total pay of around 78 lakh Indian rupees. His one day fee is 4 lakh, and test fee is 15 lakh Indian rupees for every match.At the age of 18, Sharma was called to join the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa in 2006–07. However, after receiving the call and organising travel arrangements, it was decided not to send him on the tour. In reference to his height and lean physique in his Under-19 days, the bowler was nicknamed Lambu. In 2011, he became the fifth youngest player to take 100 Test wickets. Against South Africa in 2013, Ishant Sharma became the fifth quickest Indian to grab 100 ODI wickets. While being a "rhythm" bowler, he still is considered one of the fastest Indian bowlers having bowled in excess of 150 km/h on several occasions in international cricket as well as the IPL, his fastest being 152.2 km/h bowled to Ricky Ponting on Boxing Day Test in 2011.In May 2007, Sharma was selected in the test team for the Bangladesh tour and played as a replacement for the fast bowler Munaf Patel. Over there he played for his national side in the second test where he bowled three overs including one maiden and conceded only five runs without taking a wicket.

9. Bhuvenshwar Kumar

Bhuvenshwar Kumar makes around 70 lakh Indian rupees every year. His test match salary is 15 lakh, and the one-day fee is 4 lakh Indian Rupees.He plays for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket, and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. Kumar is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who swings the ball both ways efficiently, especially adept at creating late swing, and a useful lower order right-handed batsman. His talent was first noticed in a T20 match against Pakistan, where he successfully took a three-wicket haul. In the ODI series that followed, he bowled a magic delivery to Mohammad Hafeez - cleaning up his stumps and thus ensuring his place in the Indian squad for the rest of the series. He later proved to be a match winner for India.Kumar was included in the playing eleven of the first T20I match against Pakistan at Bengaluru following Parvinder Awana's poor showing in the previous series against England. He took 3 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs in the match with an economy rate of 2.25. He took the wickets of Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal. He opened his account in ODIs by taking a wicket in the very first ball that he bowled, dismissing Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan. Kumar's debut wickets in T20Is, ODIs and Tests have all been bowled and is the first ever bowler to do so.

10. Ravindra Jadeja

Ravindra Jadeja as of now is a Grade C player with a retainer fee of 25 Lakh. But we are sure that he will be promoted in next BCCI contract. He is a regular member of T20, ODI and Test side which means he gets a lot of money by being part of these games.Jadeja was part of the Indian U-19 cricket team that won the World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. He made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka on 8 February 2009 and scored an unbeaten 60 off 77 balls in that match. However, his Test debut came almost four years later, on 13 December 2012, against England at Nagpur.Jadeja was bought for $2 million by the Chennai Super Kings at the 2012 IPL Players Auction. He was bought by the Gujarat Lions in the 2016 IPL Players Auction for ₹9.5 crores, after the Chennai Super Kings were banned from the IPL for two seasons.In the 5th test match of 2016-17 India v England ....he was the best bowler taking 7 wickets by giving 48 runs only in Test cricket. On January 22, 2017, Jadeja became the first Indian left arm spinner to take 150 One Day International wickets, when he dismissed Sam Billings at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.