The Indian Cricket League, the one that best pays its players per game of world sport

The Indian Cricket League, the one that best pays its players per game of world sport

According to the report presented by Sporting Intelligence, the Indian Premier League of Cricket is the competition that pays its players the most per game

The Global Sports Salaries Survey report prepared by the consulting firm Sporting Intelligence leaves us, in addition to the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid at the time of giving back to their players, a less surprising headline: the Indian Premier League of cricket is the sport competition World Cup that best pays its players for each match played.

Each player in this competition charges 310,325 euros on average per game played, since in the Indian Premier League 14 matches are played in the regular league. These figures significantly improve the average salaries of other competitions such as the NFL (their players win an average of 156,340 euros for each of the 16 Regular League games) or the Premier League (88,934 euros for each of the 38 matches). Other tournaments such as the NBA (81,385 euros would charge each player per game) or La Liga (65,452) are even further from the average salary per game of an IPL player.

The IPL is a competition in which eight teams and a total of 128 players militate that in the last year has registered an increase in the average salary per player in 2018 of 29.8% to reach 4.3 million euros per year . The report indicates that this increase is due to the new television rights agreement reached this year with Star India, which is estimated at 2,214 million euros for the rights of the parties for the next 5 years.

The Indian Premier League of Cricket is also characterized by the small difference between the salaries of the team that best pays its players (the Kolkata Knight Riders, with 4.55 million euros on average) and the worst (the Chennai Super Kings, with € 4,076 million on average), reducing the difference ratio between the club that pays the best and the one that pays the worst to 1.12 to 1 in 2018. A slightly better ratio than the NFL (1.38 to 1) and the NBA (1.98 to 1), and much better than those of the MLB (3.53 to 1), the Premier League (6.82 to 1) and LaLiga (19.1 to 1).

In addition, all teams of the Indian Premier League appear in the Top-65 of the global ranking of teams that best pay their players every year and in very close positions among them. The Kolkata Knight Riders appears in the 52nd overall position while the Chennai Super Kings appears in the 64th position, at the level of clubs such as the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA (54th), Inter Milan (62nd) and better than entities like the AC Milan (65º), Tottenham Hotspur (66º), Borussia Dortmund (70º) and LaLiga Valencia (75º) and Sevilla (79º) teams.