When former India head coach Ravi Shastri was recently questioned about the salaries of some of the best cricket players in the nation, his response astounded everyone. Cricket may not be a really global sport, but it has surely made some of its players famous throughout the world.
Among the most well-known and prosperous cricket players India has ever produced are Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, and Sachin Tendulkar. Through their on-field exploits as well as their lucrative brand endorsements, these legends have accumulated enormous fortune.
“What kind of numbers do these superstars in India earn?” said Shastri a question posed by former England captain Michael Vaughan.
“They make a lot of money. “Definitely a lot through endorsements and over 100 crores,” Shastri stated on the Stick To Cricket Podcast.
“Which is how much?” he was asked.
That would be ten million, then. Ten million pounds, indeed. I would simply consider one hundred rupees to be one pound. You can thus climb above it by working backwards,” Shastri continued.
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Ravi Shastri even disclosed that during their heyday, famous people like Dhoni, Kohli, and Tendulkar might have done more commercials, but their hectic schedules frequently didn’t allow for it.
“Someone with the haughtiness like Sachin, Virat, or an MS. They would run more than 15 to 20 ads. Additionally, it’s daily. There isn’t any time. The amount of cricket being played makes it easy to accomplish more.
“So you know they’ll give us a day and run an advertisement for a year,” Ravi Shastri said.
Regarding the current Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, England is dominating the second day of the fourth Test in Manchester. Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley, the openers, led the team through the deficit and reduced it to 133 runs.
They took over the game in a couple of sessions after putting together a partnership of 166 runs for the opening wicket. Earlier, Sai Sudharsan, Rishabh Pant, and Yashasvi Jaiswal all contributed half-centuries to India’s 358. Ben Stokes, the captain of England, finally took a fifer to strengthen his hold on the visitors after eight years.
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