Srinagar: While Pakistan cricket team recently has started to match Team India on the field, but it still lags far behind when it comes to the riches of Indian cricket with top Indian stars way richer than their counterparts.
The current Pakistan top star Babar Azam earns 12 times less than what Team India superstar Virat Kohli earns, according to a report.
Not only that, despite being top Cricket star of Pakistan having PSL contract, international matches and PCB contract, many commercial signings, Babar is not the richest ever cricketer in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s richest cricketer till date is not even the likes of Shahid Afridi, Wasim Akram or Shoaib Akhtar. Their lifetime earnings is still short than the richest Pakistani cricketer, who is none other than the former captain and Prime Minister Imran Khan.
As per a report, Imran Khan is the richest cricketer in Pakistan with net worth of 70 million USD, which is close to 10.9 billion Pakistani Rupees. “He (Imran) has a net worth of 70 million USD making him the richest cricketer in Pakistan, Zee News quoted report from blog.siasat.pk.
The same report stated that, till June 2021, Babar Azam was not even in the top 10 list of richest Pakistani cricketers in the history of the nation’s cricket.
On the second number was Shahid Afridi with net worth of 7.3 billion Pakistani rupees and on third sport was Sania Mirza’s husband Shoaib Malik, who earns 3.9 billion Pakistani Rupees. Fourth in this list is a surprising name. Mohammad Hafeez with annual earning of 3.6 billion PKR while Azhar Ali’s net worth is 2.3 billion Pakistani Rupees and he sits on the fifth spot.
This date was from 2021. In the last three years, Shaheen and Babar have become even more popular and favourites in the market. Their numbers have certainly grown and it is a big likelihood that they have broken into this top 10.