Players are soft targets

What's wrong with cricketers earning large sums of money, Dileep Premachandran asks in the Sunday Guardian. Rather than blaming players for being greedy, he says, it is the administrators who should be asked why they don't pay cricketers from countries other than India, Australia and England more for playing international cricket, and why they don't create a window for the IPL.

Instead of lining up the soft targets, the players, let's ask some serious questions of the administrators. When you can't pay an international cricketer a fair wage – those that aren't Indian, English or Australian often take home in a season what one of our talentless ham-actors gets for a show – why do you come between them and IPL riches? When more than 95 percent of international cricketers express an interest in being part of the league, why the reluctance to create a window for it?