The date was 2 June 2025, in this one day, two star cricketers announced their retirement. The first news came about Glenn Maxwell, he announced his retirement from ODI International and said that he would focus on T20 cricket. The 36 -year -old Maxwell was a member of the team winning the ODI World Cup in 2015 and 2023.

Just a few hours after this news, another news came to the South African cricket team. 33 -year -old Henrik Klassen called International Cricket as Alvida. And after the retirement of these cricketers, another shocking news has come related to Nicholas Puran a week after a week. He too announced retirement from international cricket at the age of just 29 years.

The special thing is that all these cricketers have decided to withdraw from international cricket and someone has decided to withdraw from some format. But none of these cricketers have decided to withdraw from franchise cricket. In such a situation, it is clear that in franchise cricket, money makes more money and in just a few days, why will they play international cricket?

If we look at these 3 retirements in 8 days, then one thing to notice whether Maxwell, Klassen or then Puran… These three are big names of franchise cricket. All three play tremendously in T20 cricket.

Talking about the Indian Premier League (IPL) only, they got a lot of money to play a season. Klassen was retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 23 crore. Puran was retained by Lucknow Supergiants for Rs 21 crore. At the same time, Maxwell was bought by Punjab Kings for Rs 4.20 crore. Although in Indian cricket too, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Rawichandran Ashwin have also left different formats of cricket, but they are also playing franchise cricket fiercely.

Heavy franchise cricket fees on board fees
According to a report- Klassen used to get a match fee of $ 1,900 (about 1 lakh 60 thousand rupees) per ODI and $ 911 (about 77 thousand) per T20 match. At the same time, under the Central Contract, there was a payment ranging from 55 lakh to 1 crore 30 lakhs.

According to a report by CRICKET.com.AU, the top contracting earnings had fixed more than $ 3 million (about 25 crore) per year in 2024-25 every year, in which the minimum retainer amount (3 crore) was probably fixed at $ 367,000 (3 crore), except for tour payments and match fees.

At the same time, players playing at least two formats (Test, ODI, T20) in the West Indies Cricket Board can earn a minimum of 240,000 US dollars (about Rs 1.97 crore) per year. Three format players can earn up to US $ 300,000 (about 2.5 crore rupees) per year. The match fee for Test matches is around US $ 5,000 (about 4 lakh rupees) per game. At the same time, under the Central Cricket, players in the West Indies get salary fixed every year, which varies according to their rank.

That is, one thing is clear that recently, all the cricketers who have retired, they want to play franchise cricket, but do not want to play cricket related to the national interest. Because no one is a cricketer, he is taking the first retiring international cricket on the occasion and is performing franchise cricket.

Is everything money, the country is nothing
Klassen retired from Test cricket in January 2024, but he was active in T20 International and ODI. In April this year, he was ignored for the Central Contract of Cricket South Africa (CSA). On June 2 (Monday), Australia all -rounder Glenn Maxwell also said goodbye to ODI International. Now Nikolas Puran has done the same. One thing is common in all this that all these franchises will continue to play cricket, no one has decided to withdraw from them.

Apart from Australia and South Africa, the West Indies team are a group of islands, where many islands form a team together. The West Indies include Leward Island, Windward Island, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana etc. The cricket boards of these islands jointly form the West Indies cricket team and represent the West Indies in international cricket.

In such a situation, not only Puran, but there are many Windies cricketers who are focusing on franchise cricket by not playing international cricket. These include names like Andre Russell and Sunil Naren.