1 Sep 2022

Getting hard to turn down well-paying cricket leagues - Hamish Bennett

From Morning Report, 7:37 am on 1 September 2022

New Zealand Cricket say they're confident there won't be a mass exodus of Black Caps players to high-paying Twenty20 leagues, after the international retirement of Colin de Grandhomme yesterday.

The 36-year-old has been a crucial cog in the New Zealand test team in recent years, and leaves to play in the big money Big Bash League in Australia.

With salaries are set soar in the likes of the Indian Premier League and England's Hundred competition, former Black Cap Hamish Bennett says it's getting harder to turn down the lucrative leagues.

He spoke to Susie Ferguson.