Suresh Raina, AB de Villiers join THIS elite club ahead of IPL 2021 auction

Indian Premier League is most lucrative T20 league in world that yields hefty paycheques for participating cricketers. Over years, players have raked in big bucks and upcoming IPL 2021 will be different. As far as IPL's 100 crore club is concerned, three Indian cricketers were a part of elite club till 2010.

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Suresh Raina and AB de Villiers enter IPL's 100 crore club

Chennai Super Kings skipper, MS Dhoni is at top of highest earners from IPL's list with former Indian captain pocketing over ₹137 crore by featuring in India’s premier cricketing event. Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma  is at second place with with right-hander earning over ₹131 crore from league. Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli occupies third place who has me ₹ 126 crores from cricketing extravaganza.

w, Suresh Raina who recently featured in  CSK list of retained players 2021 and AB de Villiers who also found his name in  RCB list of retained players 2021 have joined Dhoni, Rohit and Kohli in prestigious list. Raina who was retained by CSK ahe of IPL 2021 auction for ₹11 crore will enter 100-crore club soon. As of w, Raina's earning from IPL stands at ₹99.7 crore. tably, Raina could have achieved feat last year only, however, he couldn't do it as he pulled out of IPL 2020 citing personal reason.

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On or hand, de Villiers' earnings from IPL till 2020 have been over ₹91.5 crore. South African was retained by RCB for IPL 2021 at his current salary of ₹11 crore which also makes him enter coveted 100 crore club and makes him only foreign player to feature in list.

CSK list of retained players 2021

MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, N Jageesan, R Gaikw, KM Asif, R Jeja, J Hazlewood, K Sharma, A Rayudu, I Tahir, D Chahar, Faf du Plessis, S Thakur, M Santner, D Bravo, L Ngidi, S Curran, S Kishore.

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RCB list of retained players 2021

Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, am Zampa, Josh Philippe, Kane Richardson, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Shahbaz Ahmed and Pawan Deshpande.

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SOURCE: IPLT20.COM