It's Raining Cash on Indian Cricketers after Twenty20 World Cup Triumph
The cricket crazy nation, India celebrates its memorable victory in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup. Cricket is considered as a religion in India and the cricketers are worshipped as gods. It was evident when the triumphant team returned from South Africa.Not only they got a grand welcome, but also gifts and cash prizes were showered on them like flowers. Here's a list of the prize money and gifts received by the Indian cricketers so far.
1) The Indian team received a prize money worth $490,000 for winning the Twenty20 World Cup.
2) The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) announced a prize money of $3 million (Rs 12 crore) for the team. Each member got a check of Rs 80 lakhs.
3) A special cash reward of Rs 1 crore given to Yuvraj Singh for his 6 sixes in an over.
4) The support staff including the Manager, Bowling Coach, Fielding Coach and Physio got Rs 15 lakhs each.
5) Lalit Modi, Vice President of BCCI gifted a Porsche car to Yuvraj Singh on his personal capacity.
6) Neosport presented a Mercedes car to R P Singh for excellent bowling performance in the tournament.
7) Sahara India has announced to give flats (worth Rs 25 lakhs = $62,500) to each cricketer.
8) The Delhi government has decided to offer free Air services to all members of Team India for 5 years.
9) Air India and Indian Airlines announced out-of-turn promotion for some cricketers including Dhoni, Uthappa, Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh. They will also get a steep hike in their salary.
10) The Haryana government has given Rs 21 lakhs to Joginder Singh.
11) The Karnataka government has announced a cash reward of Rs 5 lakhs each for player Robin Uthappa and bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad.
12) Maharashtra government has announced a reward of Rs. 10 lakhs each for Ajit Agarkar and Rohit Sharma.
13) Virender Sewhag and Gautam Gambhir will receive Rs 5 lakhs each from the Delhi government.
14) The Kerala government has announced a cash reward of Rs 5 lakhs for S Sreesanth.
15) The Baroda Cricket Association has handed over checks worth Rs 11 lakhs each to Pathan brothers - Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan. In addition, they also received Rs 5 lakhs each from the Gujarat government.
16) RP Singh became the first recepient of the Manyavar Kanshiramji International Sports Award that carries a reward of Rs 10 lakhs.
17) The Jharkhand Government has bestowed the first "Jharkhand Ratna" award on Mahendra Singh Dhoni. According to the Chief Minister of the state, Dhoni will get a "surprise gift" on arrival.
18) The Union government has decided to give Z+ Security cover to M S Dhoni. Although it's not an award, only few eminent and VVIP persons in the country receive such security cover.
Please Note:
10 lakh = 1 millon
1 crore = 100 lakhs or 10 million
1 lakh = 100 thousand
5 lakh = 1/2 million
The exchange rate of a US Dollar = Rs 40
posted by Sagar Satapathy at
8:12 PM
12 Comments:
and who wants to be that these motherfuckers wont give a single dollar to charity. One of the most poverty ridden countries in the world, and ppl are throwing money at fucking athletes. What a fucking waste, im ashamed to have supported this team.
who wants to bet*
no shit...
Charity to door yaar, lets hope they pay their taxes
by the way, did you know all of this could've been fixed? Don't you think so? Here's more of the cashflow in the business. http://optimicician.blogspot.com/2007/09/t20-champions-oh-yes-what-ever.html
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@suraj...
I do not understand why they need to give money for charity.They earned it.Charity Money is not a solution for poverty,and if you think so you should refrain from abusing someone and start giving portion of your paycheck in charity.
We all try to save tax one way or other..if they are exempt from paying huge taxes by nation's law..fight against the law not against the people.
I am not a great fan of cricket but this is not the way you should target someone's success.
PS: you should give your Bet money to charity.
Agree with you Kunal. If they had lost, we could have criticized them for loosing. Now that they have won, we are criticizing them again. How can one assume that the money is not going to charity. But more importantly, its their money and they can do what they want with it.
If they had lost, posters with their faces would have been burnt in the streets. Theirs lives would be made hell.
No everyone is questioning their prizes for being good at what they do?
Sounds like hypocracy!
Why don't stop bitching and moaning about other ppl's success and focus on making YOUR lives better?
Things are not just going to happen for you, you need to do it! These boys EARNED the respect and their prizes.
DC (South African Indian)
The problem is not that they would give something to charity. The real problem is that when someone wins in cricket they get so much while in other sports nobody cares.
I bet if we would have won hockey world cup, the prize money wouldn't have been a even a quarter of this.
And winning in 20-20 is no big championship. Real test comes up in longer versions of game where they still need to prove themselves.
Why compare other sports to cricket?
Every thing has its own value.
How many of us would pay money to watch a hockey match featuring India.
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