KP, Flintoff to give 10% to their counties

Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff have agreed to a 10% county cut or in other words they have agreed to pay their respective counties 10% of their potential earnings from the Indian Premier League after England's cricketers were given a 21 day window to take part in the lucrative IPL that will rule them out of the start of the English season.

"It's something the players are supportive of," Sean Morris, the chief executive of the PCA, told the Guardian. "One game's absence could net a county a fair bit of money, so commercially it makes sense. The counties would probably prefer it that way round than having a player for one game that he might not have played in anyway."

Pietersen is projected to earn almost US$650,000 on a pro-rata basis for his three weeks' work, which would net his county a valuable £46,000.

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