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Salaries of all the International Cricket Captains in 2021 Revealed

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Salaries of all the International Cricket Captains in 2021 Revealed.

Salaries of all the International Cricket Captains in 2021 Revealed

To be a leader of the side is not an easy job to take. The captain is the most vital cog in the team and around whom the team is made. Skippers have added responsibilities to glue up the members of the squad on the field as well as off the field.

They have to take care of their every action and have to take calculated risks that must be in the favour of the team. Skipper is the person who is confronted at first when the team loses or wins. There are times when the captains have to go through various hardships due to the poor performances of the team.

All the players in the cricket team are handed a central contract annually which also specifies their salary for the year. Although, the salaries of the skippers depend a lot on their respective cricket boards. Mostly it is seen that there are no special perks given to the skipper of the side however there are teams that give the additional sum to the skipper with that added authority.

Here in this article, we will discuss one by one the salaries of all the international skipper or captains in 2021 (Calculated in INR).

Salaries of all the International Cricket Captains in 2021:

#08. Dimuth Karunaratne – INR 51.03 lakh, Kusal Perera – INR 25 lakh

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Sri Lanka Cricket is surely not having their best of the times in the last few years. The team doesn’t have a settled playing11 due to which the coordination of the team always tends to get loose.

Apart from this, Sri Lanka Cricket is lacking a good leader who can spearhead the team for a long time. In the last four years, SLC has changed nine ODI captains, that’s huge. They have lost multiple series on the Trott due to which their rankings in the ICC tables have gone too low.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) uses split captaincy, Dimuth Karunaratne is their Test skipper while Kausal Parera is the limited-overs skipper. The former gets an annual salary of USD 70,000 while the latter gets USD 35,000.

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