Yeah, this. Amazing how intransigent CWers tend to be on this issue.SLC cricketers get paid ****. If someone quadrupled your salary for 1/10th your work, you'd do it too. Unless you're actually making an excellent wage from your board - which only applies to Indian, English, Autralian and South African cricketers.
But most people's careers don't end by 35 either, and that's if they're lucky. Not struggling is different from being stable enough to be able to take care of your family after your career is over. An even if you theoretically could be comfortable, the vast majority of us would still take a quadruple pay increase for 1/10th the work.Compared to the average wage of people in SL, I'm sure they get paid very well (when they do get paid obv). Couple that with sponsorship deals etc, they're hardly struggling.
Why do people do volunteer work?They're not, but "If someone quadrupled your salary for 1/10th your work, you'd do it too"
If my passion was helping people (it's not ftr, I hate ****s) and I was a doctor, but working in the middle of Africa helping people in the famine, earning far more than anyone else around me, but not heaps in comparison to what I could be making in industry, then someone offered me to go to another country and become a trash collector (nothing wrong with that, just first thing that came to mind that was completely different) for four times the wage (and the job is 1/10 as hard), do you think I would do it?But most people's careers don't end by 35 either, and that's if they're lucky. Not struggling is different from being stable enough to be able to take care of your family after your career is over. An even if you theoretically could be comfortable, the vast majority of us would still take a quadruple pay increase for 1/10th the work.
lol.If my passion was helping people (it's not ftr, I hate ****s) and I was a doctor, but working in the middle of Africa helping people in the famine, earning far more than anyone else around me, but not heaps in comparison to what I could be making in industry, then someone offered me to go to another country and become a trash collector (nothing wrong with that, just first thing that came to mind that was completely different) for four times the wage (and the job is 1/10 as hard), do you think I would do it?
Well the anology was that you're doing something you believe in for the presitige and self satisfaction of it, not for the money. Surely you got that...lol.
How is playing test cricket like doing volunteer work ffs. If anything making money from the IPL will probably result in an increase in their donations.