In the draft for The Hundred the following players were all given, top rank, £125,000 contracts: Joe Clarke  Tom Kohler - Cadmore Tom Banton Laurie Evans Liam Dawson The £125,000 bracket was designed for top international players the sort of people who earn $1m + from the IPL and need to be tempted to participate in The Hundred. But none of the 5 players above are elite cricketers.  None of them is playing in the current iteration of the IPL, none of them is a regular in England teams.  And yet each gets £125,000 for playing in the Hundred.   It's not the only money the five players get from English cricket as each of them also has a county contract.  Precise figures on how much county cricketers earn are hard to find but £100k per year might be a decent guess for an experienced, OK player at one of the larger counties.  (Lancashire's cricket wage bill divided by the number of cricket staff comes out at about £80k.) A Hundred player has to rebate 12.5% of their county salary