The concerns of professional cricketers

In my previous column, I discussed the key findings of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations’ (FICA) global survey of the employment of men’s professional cricketers. The survey is compiled mostly from cricket data and statistics from the 2018/19 season, as well as questionnaires completed during 2019 by 4,191 professional cricketers from all twelve countries with Test match status plus Scotland. It is worth bearing in mind, though, that only nine have recognised player associations. The notable exclusions are India and Pakistan, which collectively represent 35,6% of all professional cricketers. Cricketers from these countries were interviewed for the survey, but it is perhaps difficult to judge how accurate the opinions really are of more than a third of the world’s professional cricketers. The survey covered a wide range of topics affecting professional cricketers. The most important of these were the structure of global and domestic cricket, contractual and employment rights… Continue reading