Pat Cummins: Pat Cummins will get 5 times the money from Kohli-Rohit! Will you leave IPL after this offer?

By Samira Vishwas On May 8, 2026

Australia’s Test captain Pat Cummins is going to get such a big contract from Cricket Australia, which has sparked a debate on the salary structure of cricket boards around the world. According to reports, Cummins will earn more than Rs 80 crore in the next three years. Interestingly, the annual contract amount of top Indian players of BCCI, the world’s richest cricket board, is much less than this.

Let us tell you that BCCI had released the Annual Central Contract List in February this year. In this, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were directly demoted from A+ category to B. In this category, both of them get Rs 3 to 5 crore annually, whereas CA has offered Cummins around Rs 27 to 28 crore per year.

It is being told that Cricket Australia has taken this big decision to keep its star players away from franchise cricket and keep them connected with the national team. Cummins will get 40 lakh Australian dollars i.e. about Rs 27 to 28 crore every year in the new three-year contract. If seen in Indian currency, this amount comes to approximately Rs 82 crore in three years.

According to reports, Pat Cummins and Travis Head had received an offer of US $ 10 million annually from IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad, so that they could play only franchise cricket. However, Cummins rejected the offer. After this, Cricket Australia prepared a new huge contract to stop its players.

Not only Cummins, but Travis Head is also reported to have received a similar offer. At the same time, preparations are also underway to increase the annual salary of Cameron Green and Marnus Labuschagne. On the other hand, if we talk about BCCI’s central contract, only Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja are included in Grade-A for the 2025-26 season. These players get Rs 5 crore annually while Grade-B players are given Rs 3 crore and Grade-C players are given Rs 1 crore. The previously existing Grade-A Plus, in which players used to get Rs 7 crore, has been abolished.

That is, in comparison, Cummins alone will earn around Rs 28 crore in a year, whereas India’s Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill gets only Rs 5 crore from BCCI. Although the earnings of Indian players increase significantly through IPL contracts and advertisements, the difference appears to be huge only on the basis of board contracts. This entire matter has once again raised the question whether the world’s richest cricket board should reconsider the contract structure of its players.