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SPINNER Xavier Doherty may not play a game during the World Cup, but he will still pocket nearly $340,000 if Australia goes through the entire showpiece tournament undefeated on home soil.
Prizemoney for this World Cup has increased by 25 per cent from four years ago on the subcontinent, with a total of $12.6 million up for grabs.
Although it pales in comparison to what the big boys will earn in this year's IPL, winning a World Cup is a lucrative exercise, particularly for those players who don't command the millions available in Twenty20 cricket.
For the World Cup champions, there's at least $4.7 million on offer, however there are bonuses for going through the six-week event without losing a game or for only dropping one match.
Should Australia sweep the field and Michael Clarke holds the trophy aloft at the MCG, there will be over $5 million going into the players' purses.
Australia has always had a policy of equally distributing the winnings between the players in the 15-man squad.
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Meaning that fringe players like Doherty will pocket as much as superstars like Clarke, David Warner and Mitchell Johnson.
Being pipped at the post in the final would see Australia share a still lucrative $2.2 million runner's up cheque.
But crashing out in the semi-finals ($760,000) or the quarters ($380,000) would see the players walk away with only enough prizemoney to throw at buying a family car.
Match payments for winning a group game stack up at $3800 each, and teams eliminated at the end of the group games will receive over $44,000 to share among themselves.
While prizemoney will go straight to each player's bank accounts, the Australian men's playing group have decided to sacrifice a percentage of what they would have stood to earn, in the interests of putting back into the game.
The Australian Cricketer's Association, with the support of Cricket Australia, have established the Past Player Game and Personal Development Program, which supports ex-cricketers and also the development of future prospects.
Similar to rugby league's Men of League Foundation, the ACA's initiative aims to support past players in their post-cricket lives — with health, wellbeing, education, training and career development.
Ricky Ponting and the Australia team celebrates the 2007 World Cup victory. AFP Pic: Jewel Samad. Source: AFP
The program is available to all male and female past players, and even current female players in some circumstances.
It will receive funding of $1,000,000 for 2014-15 — money which comes directly out of the World Cup fund.
Australian male players have agreed to forgo 26 per cent of their World Cup revenue (excluding prize money) to support the program to the tune of $4 million — which works out at $1 million each year for the next four years.
Meanwhile, common sense has finally prevailed at the International Cricket Council, with the board overturning a farcical situation, which could have resulted in dual-World Cup winners on Australian soil.
An 11th hour decision by ICC powerbrokers has amended the game conditions to include the allowance for a super over should the final finish in a tie.
It means there will be a definitive winner of the World Cup, which kicks off in Melbourne on February 14.
Under the original conditions set out for the tournament, the trophy would have been split between the two finalists if the decider finished in a tie.
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