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Top Oz cricketers may abandon Victoria to play in cash cow IPL | Top cricketers of Victoria like Cameron White, Andrew McDonald and David Hussey may walk away from their state to play in the mega bucks Indian Premier League,
as the team prepares to defend its honours in the Sheffield Shield The Shield final clashes with the start of the Indian Premier League's Twenty20 tournament
next month. Victoria's all-time leading run-scorer Brad Hodge has already made
the choice and quit the team just before Christmas so that he can play for Kolkata
Knight Riders. Top bowler Dirk Nannes says he is thinking about ditching Victoria
to join the Delhi Daredevils, where he would pick up 250,000 dollars for two months'
work, The Herald Sun reports. The mainstay of the Victorian team - captain Cameron
White, batsman David Hussey, and Test all-rounder Andrew McDonald - face a similar
predicament. Hussey stands to make 650,000 dollars with KKR while White has been
offered 500,000 dollars by the Bangalore Royal Challengers. McDonald is on 100,000
dollars with Delhi, still considerably more than the 3900 dollars he would earn
playing in the Shield final. Those three stars also earn a 200,000 dollars base
payment for playing for Victoria. Even Bushrangers coach Greg Shipperd is in the
same dilemma as he has a 100,000 dollars contract to guide the Delhi Daredevils
through the second IPL season. IPL chief Lalit Modi has threatened that players
not in India on time could be penalized, "including termination of contracts,
jeopardising future participation." Nannes admitted it was a delicate situation
and quitting the Vics was an option. |
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