IPL Auction & Players Salary: 14 years of IPL makes 786 players richer by Rs 6144 Cr – InsideSport Exclusive: The Indian Premier League and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) achieved a unique feat on Thursday at IPL 2021 auction. At least Rs 145.3 crore were spent on the purchase of players in the auction ceremony. As a result, IPL’s overall amount spent has soared past 6,000 crore, revealed Moneyball of Insidesport. The number currently stands at Rs 6,144 crore.
IPL before the auctions till date had disbursed 59,990,545,046 (5,999 Cr) salary over the years to its players. With Smith being bought over by DC, IPL has breached 6000 Cr salary mark.
IPL to cross new commercial benchmarking on Thursday – 6000 Cr Salary Mark
Insidesport.co has released the first authentic report with detailed analysis of players’ professional salaries for the 14 seasons of the IPL. Various interesting aspects, combinations and permutations of IPL players’ professional contracts are now available on MONEYBALL – the digital salary calculation engine for professional sportspersons.
The InsideSport MONEYBALL reveals that till date 761 players have been contracted by the IPL franchises and have earner a consolidated salary figure of 59,990,545,046 (5,999 Cr)
Indian Players Biggest Beneficiary of IPL Contracts: As expected Indian cricketers have been the biggest beneficiary of the IPL Contracts. Out of total contracted cricketers – 464 comes from India. The Indian cricketers have earned 56.7% IPL players’ gross salaries which amounts to be 33,998,066,981 (3,399 Cr)
Overseas cricketers till date have become richer by 2,599 Crores from IPL professional contracts. Overall 297 foreign cricketers have participated in IPL till date.
- 5,998 Cr: IPL’s consolidated salary bill for 14 years
- MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma: Only 3 players who have earned about 125 Cr in IPL Salaries.
- 5 Players have broken 100 Cr career salary barrier in IPL
- AB De Villiers is the only foreign cricketer to cross 100 Cr Salary mark till date.
- Dhoni only one who has crossed 150 Cr Salary benchmark
IPL Auction & Players Salary: After India, Australian cricketers biggest earners from IPL Contracts
More interesting facts emerge from combination and permutation of the IPL salary data.
After the Indians, who have pocketed a total of Rs. 3,398 crore by playing in the IPL, Australian cricketers have taken home ₹852.7 crore. The MONEYBALL search engine offers numerous combinations and permutations to answer all the probable questions around IPL salaries.
The South African cricketers are No. 3 in the list with 55 Proteas cricketers have earned 522.5 Cr from IPL in last 14 years.
Sports enthusiast and professionals can track all the MONEYBALL information at www.insidesport.co/moneyball.
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