SYDNEY: Former Australia Test captain Mark Taylor has disagreed with Chris Lynn's demand to Cricket Australia (CA) for a chartered flight to bring IPL players home from India at the conclusion of the tournament.
Mumbai Indians batsman Lynn wants CA to use the 10% amount of an Aussie player's IPL contract it gets from IPL, to fly players back home from India which is reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic. The Australian government has suspended flights from India as fresh Covid-19 daily cases in the country have touched four lakh besides over 3,500 deaths.
"I think Chris Lynn's comments were very rich," said Taylor while speaking on a Channel 9 sports show before adding that CA deserves the 10% cut since it invests in a player to make him ready for IPL.
"The 10% that Cricket Australia does receive from a player's contract has surely got something with providing the cricketer with some coaching education along the way to become an IPL worthy cricketer. I think his comments there are quite rich."
Taylor added that he was surprised that many of the players decided to go to India and want to stay back despite their contract not very big. According to him someone like Pat Cummins was justified in getting attracted to the money since he is paid Rs 15.5 crore but not Steve Smith. IANS