Dhoni, the world's top earning cricketer [Sunday, September 6, 2009]
Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni topped the list as the world's 10 top earning cricketers in a categorisation by Forbes. The list also figures four other Indian players including Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvaraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. The list is labelled as 'The World's top earning cricketers'.“Paycheck figures include club and national team salaries and commercial endorsement income over the last 12 months,” said forbes.According to the magazine, Dhoni earned 5.5 million while Dravid and Ganguly earned 5 million and 3.5 million USD respectively.