The Surfer

Greed indeed

Even with the world economy going bust 11 lucky cricketers have the chance to make a killing with just three hours work in Antigua on Saturday

Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
Even with the world economy going bust 11 lucky cricketers have the chance to make a killing with just three hours work in Antigua on Saturday. Robert Craddock in the Australian daily, the Daily Telegraph, believes the match between the Stanford Superstars and Kevin Pietersen's English team will be a day where we glimpse what the game is about to become.
The pressure on the players will be huge ... would you like to be the man who dropped the catch that cost your buddies a house? The amount of money the players will earn has become such a focal point that the Times newspaper of London is cynically running The Pietersen index, a stock market-style reading which giving hourly updates of the size of the kitty depending on the fluctuations of the British pound.