Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe earns double than country\u2019s highest paid cricketer Sakib al Hasan from the Bangladesh Cricket Board, leading cricket website EspnCricinfo reveals in a survey published this week. According to a report published in its monthly supplement Cricket Monthly, Hathurusinghe earns annually $340,000 from the BCB as salary and bonuses, which makes him world\u2019s fourth highest earning national cricket coach.
\nOnly India\u2019s Ravi Shastri ($1.7 million), Australia\u2019s Darren Lehmann ($550,000) and England\u2019s Trevor Bayliss ($552,000), earn more than Bangladesh coach Hathurusinghe.
\nThe survey found that the BCB pays Hathurusinghe five times the basic salary of their top player, though the match fees that the players get minimize the gap.
\nWith that the income of Bangladesh\u2019s top player Sakib stood at $140,000 \u2013 less than half of Hathurusinghe\u2019s annual income.
\nThe figures, however, are based on international cricket and do not take into account player\u2019s earnings from Twenty20 leagues, other domestic engagements or endorsements.
\nIf international is taken into account, Sakib also earns a lot less than the top players from the other countries. In this field, he is only ahead of Zimbabwe\u2019s top-earner Graeme Creamer, whose annual income from international cricket is $86,000.
\nAustralia captain Steven Smith is expected to earn $1.469 million this year while Indian\u2019s to earner Virat Kohli is set to take approximately $1 million this year in his pocket from international cricket.
\nTop-earner from other countries are \u2013 Joe Root ( $1.38million) in England, Faf du Plessis ($590,000) in South Africa, Angelo Mathews ( $320,000) in Sri Lanka, Sarfraz Ahmed in Pakistan ( $300,000), Jason Holder ( $270,000) in West Indies and Kane Williamson ( $250,000) in New Zealand.
\nBangladesh is the only Test-playing country where top-earning player is not the captain of their Test or one-day international side.
\nPart of the reason for Bangladesh\u2019s players to earn less than their international counterparts is that the BCB does not pay any money from its commercial rights earnings to them.
\nPlayers from England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand all receive a share of their board\u2019s commercial earnings as a guaranteed part of their contracts.
\nIndia pays 26 per cent of its gross revenue every year to its players \u2013 half of that is distributed among international players.
\nHow much each players gets, however, is calculated based on the number of matches they play.
\nPakistan\u2019s players receive a certain amount – thought to be approximately $3000 per game – from the PCB\u2019s main sponsor as logo money, but this is restricted purely to the XI that plays in an international.
\nAnother reason for Bangladeshi player to earn less is the poor match fees.
\nAccording to the survey, Bangladesh players get $4300 as match fee for each Test, $2500 as match fee for each one-day international and $1250 as match fee for each Twenty20 international.
\nOnly Zimbabwe players get less as match fees.
\nIndian players get highest match fee in the world \u2013 $23,380 for each Test, $9352 for each ODI and $4476 each T20I \u2013 which in some cases five times higher than Bangladeshis.<\/p>\n

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