Prize money comparisons...

[four_or_six]

Interesting list on the BBC:

PRIZE FUND COMPARISONS
£10m - Stanford Twenty20
£2.5m - Champions League
£995,000 - World Cup
£600,000 - IPL winners
£42,000 - Twenty20 Cup winners

Do you think they need to increase the World Cup prize-money as it is meant to be the pinnacle? Or is it not really important?

I would be interested to know what people think.

[cowboysfan]

Prize money in the grand scheme of things is not really important-especially for club cricket but stanfords money is ridiculous.Once the salary cap is scraped from the IPL then players can make upto(or more)$5 million for 2 months of work(guaranteed).

[andruid]

Originally Posted by four_or_six

Interesting list on the BBC:

PRIZE FUND COMPARISONS
£10m - Stanford Twenty20
£2.5m - Champions League
£995,000 - World Cup
£600,000 - IPL winners
£42,000 - Twenty20 Cup winners

Do you think they need to increase the World Cup prize-money as it is meant to be the pinnacle? Or is it not really important?

I would be interested to know what people think.

Allen Stanford should buy out the ICC outright once and for all and save us this fuddy-duddy piecemeal board-by-board nonsense.

[Manee]

Interesting hierarchy which depicts the saturation of T20. I believe that the winner of a yearly (ie. 1/1 to 31/12) Test league should recieve large prize money, with each country recieving a rapidly decreasing amount of runner up money. Hopefully this could cause a more organized yearly pattern of Test cricket and help reduce the saturation of prize money toward T20.

[GIMH]

Winning the WC should be an honour in itself, plus I imagine that a WC winner could make a ton in endorsments. Certainly, Flintoff's bank balance must have gone up tenfold following the Ashes win in 05

[Richard]

Cricketing prestige is entirely dependant on the players honouring the traditions. Some will continue to, of course, but I simply cannot believe, if things continue as they have been in recent months, that 20 years down the line we will still have a situation where Tests are the peak of the pile for most to all players.