How Much Does He Earn: No 32: Brian Lara

Salary: pounds 40,000 basic pay for his one-season contract at Warwickshire County Cricket Club; pounds 40,000 for lending his name to a range of menswear by Joe Bloggs; pounds 40,000 for a ghost-written column in the Daily Mail; pounds 25,000 for using Gray Nicholls equipment; pounds 15,000 for endorsing Oakley sunglasses. Other deals involve payment in kind. Spalding, the sports equipment manufacturer, gives him pounds 10,000-worth of golf equipment and lessons, and a mobile telephone company gives him 501 hours of free airtime per month - one for each run of his new first-class batting record. He is expected to become the highest-paid cricketer within a matter of months, overtaking Ian Botham, who made pounds 470,000 last year.

Age: 25

Perks: With his contract comes a new Peugeot 405 saloon, a flat near the club's ground in Edgbaston, and pounds 40,000-worth of free air travel.

Hours: He is bound to play in all Warwickshire's games in the six months of this season, as long as he is fit.

Home: While in England he has unlimited use of the club flat. In Trinidad he lives at his parents' house in Santa Cruz. However, he intends to build his own property on a plot of land the Trinidadian government is presenting to him.

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