The Final Word with Gideon Haigh
The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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The Importance of Race in Cricket
I accept that the Indian cricket team works very hard. I guess it's a good way to keep the players minds off the fact that they're only making about 8% of the total revenues of the IPL? 6% right. Yeah and the national contracts aren't anywhere near what you expect them to be with the revenue that comes in. First class players are still being paid like first class players in the year. The country is not the board. The board would like to think it's the country. Because it feels as though it owns all the television viewers in India. And that's why it's able to demand the Kings' ransom at ISOC and the divvying up of
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