Players need to be paid adequately to keep them engaged, feels Ross Taylor

New Zealand great Ross Taylor feels time has come to pay cricketers adequately to keep them engaged in playing international cricket or else he fears more players will give up their national contracts Trent Boult is one of the biggest names in world cricket to have withdrawn from his national contract as he wanted to spend more time with family and make himself available for T20 franchise cricketEngland opener Jason Roy too gave up his incremental contact with the ECB for more lucrative opportunities in leagues around the worldAs it stands players have to think about their futures and their longevity I dont see a mass exodus when they are young I definitely see it coming from players who are towards the end of their careers That happens in other sports tooiquest Taylor told PTI in a select media interaction on the sidelines of the World Test Championship finalThe issue of better remuneration is more relevant for players of smaller boards like West Indies New Zealand and Sri LankaBoult for instance does a job that is very hard on his body It is up to the boards to try to remunerate the players as best they can to keep them interested in playing international cricketThe carrot of international cricket will be there for a while eventually players will have to work out to look after themselves for the future said the veteran of 112 Tests 236 ODIs and 102 T20IsTaylor retired from the game last year The 39yearold had played an important part in New Zealands victory over India in the inaugural WTC final two years agoHe feels WTC is helping Test cricket stay relevantThis is where the WTC becomes very important Lot of talk about relevancy and having World Cup points in Tests makes it relevant You saw what it has done to New Zealand cricket It also improves your overall cricket added the WTC ambassador India made the tough call to leave out premier spinner R Aswhin from the playing eleven for the WTC final against Australia Considering the overcast conditions in the morning India went in with four pacers and one spinner in Ravindra JadejaAlso Read WTC Final Farokh Engineer urges stakeholders to pull Test cricket out of danger zoneYes and no I get it You have got to pick your team for what you decide to do They wanted to bowl first and Ashwin might not have played a big a part but Australia do have a lot of lefthanders and he might have played a role against themHaving said that I can understand and respect the decision that Rohit and Rahul would have had to make said the New ZealanderHe also said the idea of bestofthree WTC final is not realisticWith PTI inputs