All about money??

The Stanford Super Serious, a five series cricket match is due to take place in November between England and a Caribbean team. The winner recieves a cash prize of £11.5million, the biggest cash prize in English cricket. The majority of the money goes to the players themselves, with each player earning £577,500 each.

Many of the critics have stated that the match would not be important to english cricket had there not have been a cash insentive. England batsman Alistair Cook told the bbc "The actual cricket is unimportant, apart from financially". To be honest i have to agree, if it wasnt for the cash prize i couldn't see England sending their star players to play in a pointless game. It raises the question could cricket be turning into football, all about the money??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7660653.stm