“Make the payments bit more even throughout Test cricket to bring in gamers from various nations”
PTI
19-May-2023 – 23 hrs ago
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels the International Cricket Council (ICC) has a function to play in making sure that gamers from smaller sized Test-playing countries are paid well in Test cricket.
Ponting mentioned the example of West Indies gamers who tend to select franchise cricket over worldwide responsibility for monetary factors.
In an occasion arranged by the ICC ahead of the World Test Championship last in between India and Australia at the Oval from June 7, Ponting was inquired about children wishing to play the five-day video game in an age of T20 leagues. “That concern has a various response in various nations,” Ponting stated. “It has ending up being significantly hard to groom the children in the Caribbean for example who wish to go after the imagine playing Test cricket.
“Their payment system in the Caribbean compared to a few of the franchise leagues, it does not compare and Sri Lanka will be the very same and Bangladesh will be the exact same.”
Ponting stated talks are on within the ICC to deal with the problem. “It is not the case in India, England and Australia. You are paid well to play Test cricket for your nation and the majority of desire play the Test match video game. There is a function to bet the ICC here.
… make the payments bit more even throughout worldwide Test cricket to bring in gamers from these various nations who wish to bet their nation.”
“It is something that has actually been discussed at a really high level at the ICC to assist that however in India the sensation I get is that the majority of these children desire use the baggy blue cap and the exact same in Australia.”
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