by The Hundred could present an IPL -style auction next year with new investors who bought participations in the eight franchises that push unlimited budgets to attract the best players in the world.
Under the existing regulations, the project of hundreds of players operates on the basis of franchises in turn to choose the players at a certain number of wages of fixed wages controlled by the ECB, rather than entering a war of ‘Open call for tenders.
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While the salary of one hundred increased by 25% this season, with the highest male contract worth £ 200,000 and the best paid women earning £ 65,000, there is a strong feeling among the new owners that it is insufficient.
Jos Buttler and Jofra Archer will both be paid more as an individual by their IPL teams this year that the entire game budget for a men’s franchise. With a maximum budget of 1.17 million sterling pounds for 15 players in the male competition, the salary ceiling is less than half of the highest individual IPL salary, with Rishbah Pant signed for 2.54 million pounds sterling per Lucknow Super Giants during the mega auction last November in Saudi Arabia.
A new shareholder committee features the heads of the management of the eight franchises and representatives of the ECB will be set up to examine the wages of the players and other operational problems in the coming months. The first meetings are expected to take place at the start of the national season, with a decision on the nature of the draft of the players next year expected in September.
Although there is no possibility that a hundred salary increases at IPL levels despite the richness of new owners such as the Ambani family, which now has 49% of invincible oval, and Silicon Valley investors who paid 145 million pounds sterling to associate with MCC in London Spirit, all new investors agree that wages should increase considerably. This year’s remuneration levels have tied with The Big Bash, although all of these teams belong to Australia Cricket which has strongly resisted private investments.
The current limits of the hundred were demonstrated this week when the former England striker Alex Hales chose to sign more lucrative agreements to play for Knight riders in the cricket of the major leagues of the United States and Trinbago Knight Riders in the Premier League of the Caribbean this summer. Steve Smith and Pat Cummins both chose MLC over the hundred last year due to the higher wages offered, and although the competitions do not compete this summer, there is overlap with the CLP.
Without any perspective of the Cricket Control Commission in India, softening their ban on male players from India, signing franchises abroad, it agrees that the fastest way to develop competition is Increase play budgets, with the introduction of an open auction emerging as a real possibility.
The current one hundred project is a two -step process, with franchises allowed to keep up to 10 players from their existing teams before making their selections, with the team of last season obtaining the first choice and the champions who choose last.
The move to an open auction could lead to a reaction from the players’ union, the Professional Cricket Association, due to the fears that salary increases would benefit in a disproportionate to the star abroad. The ACP accused the ECB of a “lack of respect” when the salaries of this season were announced in December due to an increase in the gap of the sexes and a growing disparity between the bands the highest and lowest salary.
