Australia’s World Cup winners are beginning to fill their boots with money in addition to trophies, with Alyssa Healy and Grace Harris amongst these incomes huge offers to play in The Hundred within the UK.
Having already netted six-figure offers for the inaugural Ladies’s Premier League in India, Healy and Harris each earnt top-dollar contracts of $57,000 to play within the English competitors after the inaugural girls’s draft for The Hundred.
It takes Healy’s accumulate to $179,000 only for these two competitions and Harris has picked up $188,000 on prime of their Cricket Australia offers because the money begins to move in girls’s cricket.
It’s additionally been reported negotiations for the brand new collective bargaining settlement in Australian cricket may enhance the contracts of Australian gamers additional, with a bump within the WBBL wage cap anticipated too.
Healy and Harris be a part of seven different Aussies within the girls’s competitors, together with Ellyse Perry, who picked up a $46,000 deal to go together with the huge $297,000 she earnt in India.
However famous person teammates Ash Gardner, Beth Mooney and Tahlia McGrath and nationwide captain Meg Lanning all pulled out.
Harris, who was taken at No.2 within the draft and a few punishing performances in India, will play for the London Spirit, based mostly at Lord’s
“It‘s such a particular venue to play at and I’m extremely excited to play in entrance of some huge crowds there,” she stated.
“It‘s good to be part of historical past by being the second decide in The Hundred draft, however while you take a look at the squads, they’re all so sturdy – it’s going to be an ideal competitors.
Their male compatriots, Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Marsh and Tim David, additionally picked up offers on the top-bracket worth of $230,000 for the 100-ball-a-side match in August, with Marsh having additionally dedicated to spearhead the brand new Seattle Orcas within the World Sequence Cricket League within the US in July.
AUSTRALIANS IN THE HUNDRED DRAFT:
MEN
$230,000 – Mitch Marsh, Glenn Maxwell (London Spirit), Tim David (Southern Courageous)
$183,000 – Ashton Turner (Manchester Originals)
$110,000) – Kane Richardson (Birmingham Phoenix)
$91,000 – Daniel Sams (Trent Rockets)
WOMEN
$57,000 – Grace Harris (London Spirit), Alyssa Healy (Northern Superchargers)
$46,000 – Ellyse Perry (Birmingham Phoenix), Alana King (Trent Rockets), Amanda-Jade Wellington (Manchester Originals), Georgia Wareham, Heather Graham (Northern Superchargers)
$34,000 – Maitlan Brown (Southern Courageous)
$27,000 – Laura Harris (Welsh Fireplace)
