Top 10 Highest Paid Cricketers 2022

It is true that cricket is not as popular as football, baseball, basketball, and other sports but cricket is one of the most exciting and impressive sports events. ICC World Cup and other domestic leagues like IPL, BPL, and PLS have made the game famous all over the world. The T20 format is very popular with cricket fans. A cricketer is an iconic person to cricket lovers. Cricket players are celebrities in their own right because they enjoy a massive fan following on and off the field. Like most notable celebrities and pro sports persons/athletes in modern sports, they earn a lot of money.

Cricket admirers who understand the game and are adept at predicting likely outcomes of games earn a lot of money from placing bets. 

In this article, we present you the top highest-paid cricketers and their short descriptions. Currently, Indian Captain Virat Kohli is at the top of the table. He earns a massive salary from his team. His monthly salary is approximately $6,90,000 and his net worth is more than $140 million. 

The following list will disclose you rest of the cricketers’ salaries, which is based on some authentic information from different reliable sources which are very consciously collected.

Top 10 Highest Paid Cricketers 2022

Virat Kohli

India National Cricket team captain Virat Kohli currently is the highest-earning cricket player in the world. He is also captain of the Royal Challenger Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier (IPL)  League since 2013. 150 million people follow him on Instagram which is his other source of earnings. Famous brands like Puma, Myntra, Uber India, Manyavar, Audi, MRF, MPL, Philips India, Hero, and Vicks offer him sponsorship for advertisement. Along with the numerous prestigious trophies he has won during his cricketing career, Virat owns two luxurious villas, one in Mumbai and one in Gurugram. An estimated $10 million house in Gurugram is owned by the Indian captain. With his net worth of $140 Million and $690k monthly salary, he reached the peak of the list.

Babar Azam

According to ODI ranking Pakistani National Team captain, Babar Azam is the top-ranking cricketer in ICC enrolled cricketers. He is the second highest-paid cricketer. A right-hand, top-order batsman known for his discipline and level-headed attitude, Babar Azam laid claim to a long-term spot in Pakistan’s batting line-up with a strong performance in 2016. Babar made his way up through age-group cricket. His journey began at an under-15 world championship in 2008 and he played two under-19 World Cups in 2010 and 2012, where he was Pakistan’s top run-scorer. His net worth comes up to $ 4 million which is approximately INR 29.4 crore at this time he is one of the richest players of team Pakistan.

Dean Elgar is a left-handed opening batsman and a slow-left arm bowler. Elgar captained the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka 2006. He now plays for the Northerns cricket team and Titans cricket team in major South African cricket competitions. He was included in the Northern team for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. On 23 March 2018, he became the second batsman after Desmond Haynes to carry his bat through an innings on three occasions in Test cricket history. South African opening batsman Dean Elgar is currently one of the best cricketers in ICC. He gets $440,000 monthly salary which made him third on the list.

Shakib Al Hasan is an extraordinary talent and a player for all formats. He has been bossing the ICC Rankings for all-rounders for many years without much competition and has put his name among many greats of the game. Bangladesh National Cricket Team captain Shakib gets $392,400 from BCB Bangladesh Cricket Board. He earns swollen money from IPL. He is a Bangladeshi A-category allrounder having more than $40 Million net worth and one of the richest cricketers in his country.

Pat Cummins

Fast bowler Pat Cummins is the current captain of Australia in Test and ODI cricket. He is a hard-hitting right-handed batsman. He plays domestically for New South Wales. Pat Cummins made his Test debut as an 18-year-old but had to wait six years for his next appearance as injuries struck a body that could not withstand the workload. The bowler who emerged in 2017 was a thoroughbred quick who became one of the standout players in the world and, in late 2021, Australia’s Test captain in dramatic circumstances.

Rohit Sharma right-handed opening batsman for the Indian national cricket team and for the IPL-side Mumbai Indians. He has just inherited the Indian international captaincy from Virat Kohli so could we see him move up this list in the near future. Rohit has just taken on the national captaincy means that we should see his salary figures increase. He is the second highest-paid Indian cricketer next to the great Virat Kohli. He gets $170,000 monthly salary for his service at Indian cricket.

Aaron Finch is an Australian international cricketer who captains the Australian cricket team in T20, and previously in ODI. Finch currently holds the record for two of the three highest individual scores in T20 Internationals. Finch is also been a regular player in the Indian Premier League for many years and he takes his place in the Kolkata Knight Riders squad for 2022. If he maintains that kind of level, Finch will remain in the top ten highest earners list for many years.

Kraigg Brathwaite is the captain of West Indies Test Cricket. He has also effectively stood as stand-in-captain in place of Jason Holder in seven test matches before becoming the permanent captain of the test team taking over from Holder. He idolizes Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his batting style. His efforts at the test level underline that there is some serious money to be made in the red ball form of the game.

Temba Bavuma is a right-hand batsman who currently captains the South African National Cricket Team in white-ball cricket. He is better known for his Test cricket play and is not as suited to white-ball cricket. He is considered a liability in South Africa’s white-ball squads. Despite the negatives, Bavuma is one of the best fielders in South Africa. He was the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa and the first to captain the side. A salary of $70k per month is a significant figure and it’s the type of sum that may keep Bavuma away from the IPL and other tournaments if they were to make an inquiry about his services.

Kane Williamson has represented New Zealand at the 2011, 2015, and 2019 editions of the Cricket World Cup and 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2021 editions of the ICC World Twenty20. He made his full-time captaincy debut for New Zealand in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. He captained New Zealand at the 2019 Cricket World Cup, leading the team to the final and winning the Player of the Tournament award in the process.