Pat Cummins was the highest earner on CA's contract list last year.Credit:Getty Images
The players agreed to ride the highs and the lows of cricket’s finances when they secured 27.5 per cent of agreed revenue streams in 2017 following a bitter industrial dispute with CA.
According to the 2019 CA annual report,the men’s and women’s players shared in $104.5m in the preceding year - but players would forgo about $80m if Virat Kohli’s men couldn’t tour here this summer,witha cancelled India series forecast to cost CA $300m.