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    Trent Boult will not be Signing a Contract with New Zealand for financial liberation – Ravichandran Ashwin

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    Trent Boult will not be Signing a Contract with New Zealand for financial liberation – Ravichandran Ashwin

    Trent Boult will not be Signing a Contract with New Zealand for financial liberation – Ravichandran Ashwin. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took the opportunity to express his views on New Zealand pace bowler Trent Boult’s decision against the renewal of the central contract with the country’s board.

    Trent Boult will not be Signing a Contract with New Zealand for financial liberation – Ravichandran Ashwin.
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    On the 10th of August 2022, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced that Boult had requested them to stay out of the central contract. The 33-year-old’s decision to deny the contract was in a bid to spend more time with his family and increase availability for overseas franchise T20 leagues.

    However, this decision from the New Zealand pacer does not stop him from playing internationally. He will be getting chances if available to play for the Black Caps. But his participation in the national team will imminently be taking a back seat.

    The New Zealand fast bowler opted out of the annual contract with New Zealand Cricket. He signed with the MI Emirates for the inaugural season of the UAE’s International League T20. The ILT20 is scheduled to take place in January 2023.

    Ashwin is a teammate to Boult at Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. He said that the player would rather earn more from T20 league participation than sign a national contract.

    “Trent Boult’s IPL contract is worth ₹8.25 crore. If he does not sign his central contract with New Zealand and plays IPL, CSA T20 league, and the UAE T20 league, he will make more money than what he will make by playing for New Zealand,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

    “If he signs the contract, the board will ask him to play international cricket since he will be a contracted player. So, just for that professional and financial liberation, he is not signing the central contract,” he added.

    Since the advent of the Indian Premier League in 2008 by the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI), every big nation is starting its own T20 league. Cricket Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL) and the Pakistan Cricket Board’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) are the mere competitors of the Indian Premier League with the England and Wales Cricket Board-owned ‘The Hundred’ latest to join the brigade.

    South Africa and the United Arab Emirates are the two countries in line waiting to launch their respective T20 competitions in January 2023. The fact that Indian Premier League owners have invested in teams of both leagues is boosting their revenue models.

    “But the future of international cricket and its calendar is going to be largely affected by franchise cricket. We should take these leagues forward carefully. The health of international cricket will safeguard the health of cricket as a whole,” Ashwin said.

    Cricket South Africa will be starting their brand new T20 league. South Africa is claiming that its franchise will be the second best franchise tournament after the Indian Premier League. They are scrapping the ODI series against Australia in January 2023. The ODI series would have determined their national team’s qualification chances for the ODI World Cup 2023.

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