Shane Watson becomes Australia’s richest cricketer – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558, Australia’s top all-rounder, is now also their richest cricketer. The all-rounder is the highest earning cricketer but still ranks 11th in Business Review Weekly (BRW) list of Top 50 Australian Sports Earners
for the year 2011.
The business magazine has not yet published the complete list, which they’ll reveal on Thursday, December 15.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978.
According to the magazine, Watson has earned about $4 million this year which beats Clarke and Ponting's earnings of $3.5 million each.
Ponting's decline in form with the bat has seen the veteran cricketer’s income shrink by $ 760,000 as in the preceding year the batsman received $ 4.26 million.
Out of $4 million that Watson earned, $1.8 million came from playing the Indian Premier League (IPL) for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 and Ponting
did not take part in this year’s edition of IPL.
Watson has been Australia’s most prolific cricketer in the last couple of years. The all-rounder is an indispensable unit of the Australian roster in all formats of the game. However, the 30-year-old's career has been plagued with
injuries and he is currently recuperating from a back and hamstring injury, the same ones which forced him to sit out of the Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 is striving hard to become available for selection; if he is selected
to play, he will do so as a batsman.
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