Top 5 highest earning cricketers

Although money earned by players playing cricket doesn't match money made by players from sports such as football,tennis,golf,racing etc but also many famous cricketers especially Indian cricketers are making good amount of money playing cricket,so here is the list of top 5 highest earning cricketers in 2013:

List of highest earning cricketers in 2013

MS DHONI

Dhoni,who is believed to be the most successfull Indian Captain and although cricket lags far behind football in terms of money players make,Dhoni's earnings from cricket is similar with famous football players as he makes around 4 Millions through matches fees with Indian team and IPL, as well he makes 25 million dollars from endorsements as he is involved with various brands like Pepsi,TVS,Boost,Lays etc.

SACHIN TENDULKAR

Sachin,who is regarded as 'God of Cricket' in India is lagging very far behind Dhoni in terms 'money made' as compared to about 27 million dollars Dhoni makes per year,Tendular only makes about 2/3rd with his average yearly money kitty being just about 18 million dollars.

VIRAT KOHLI

Kohli,who is regarded as next Tendulkar by various indian media and sports fan is 3rd in our list as he has been very impressive in past 2-3 years with average of about 50 from bat in both ODI's as well test for India.He makes around 8 million dollars per year with 5 million coming from endorsements and rest 3 million coming from match fees.

SHANE WATSON

Finally,we see a non Indian batsman in the list in the form of Shane Watson. He players in IPL, Big Bash and gets a lot match fees from central contract with Australian Cricket board as well endorses popular brands like Asics, TAG and Gunn Moore bats etc

MICHAEL CLARKE

Australian Captain who is one of the best batsman in test cricket right now, and he makes round about $5 Million dollars(about 4 million coming from endorsments) in what was is a hafty amound and he also is the face of some big brands like Gillete, Bonds and SPartan sports.

Other players not listed in our top 5 list of highest earning cricketers but make decent money from cricket are:

• Kieron Pollard
• Kevin Pieterson
• Suresh Raina
• Lasith Malinga
• AB Devillers etc