Sam Curran secures £800,000 IPL contract with Kings XI Punjab at the end of remarkable 2018

Posted by David Rimmer on 20/12/2018 at 22:30

Morninglight, yes what Sam Curran got is chicken feed in relation to football players or golf stars etc. I have not forgotten about the mega bucks in other sports. It is right that talent is rewarded and I am pleased for Curran but it is a very simplistic statement to say that what we get in life is what we deserve. Try telling that to underpaid firemen or social workers or more particularly to unemployed people who can barely feed themselves. And not all of the unemployed are drug addicts or alcoholics who have brought it on themselves. Some have been fired by ruthless employers who could not care a monkey's what happens to them. I could give many other examples of injustices but I would be wasting my time. If we all nod and let things go instead of questioning things we will be a lot poorer. I, along with anybody else, have every right to comment on what people are earning and yes, I am sick of the way sport has been ruined by money or should I say the CANCER of big money. And yes I will moan and groan. I have every right to as someone who has put in thousands of hours of unpaid work in the grassroots of the game. Yes, I have chosen to do that but if I had followed the attitude of most people in my generation and given nothing back after playing that would have helped nobody.

Posted by Morninglight on 20/12/2018 at 03:44

Saw the comment about 'mind spinning' money from Mr David Rimmer. You forgot about how much the English Premier League football players, or even tennis and golf stars get? In reality, the IPL money is chicken-feed, actually the players are getting underpaid as the IPL itself is valued at nearly US$5 billion. Foreign IPL players will be lucky if they get even half of the money - 40% tax in India and perhaps more in their home country. Sam Curran deserved the good money he got. In life, we get exactly what we deserve. So feel happy when good things happen to others; don't be an Uncle Scrooge and moan and groan.

Posted by morninglight on 19/12/2018 at 03:33

Congrats to Sam Curran and his family. The bad news though is that three of the biggest dud teams in the IPL (RCB, Delhi and Punjab who invariably are table bottomers each season) bid fiercely for him - showing that the trio of dud teams are continuing their merry dunce ways in season 2019. They failed to note that Sam is a Test player, not a T20 genius and is not a regular in shorter formats for his own country. Curran Jr can excel in Tests or T20, not both. The only player to have cracked the code between the two extreme formats with some success is the now disgraced David Warner.

Posted by David Rimmer on 18/12/2018 at 19:47

How much of that £800,000 does Sam Curran get? And will that money be subject to UK tax laws. It is mind-spinning money. I have worked for nigh on 40 years and have in aggregate not earned even a half of that figure (£800,000) gross . Good luck to Curran but it is important he keeps level-headed. A lot of people who follow cricket and have given much time free at the grassroots level, will begin to question why they bother with so much money being earned by those at the top and resources so tight at the bottom. The trite answer is to say this is an international market and Curran is paid the market value. It is important people get angry and speak out about the high levels of cash being paid out. That is the case in one sense. But this massive amount of money only fuels a sense of burning injustice between the haves and have nots.