Indian skipper Virat Kohli has once again appealed for increasing the salary of the players ahead of the important series against South Africa. Team India is currently playing Sri Lanka in the Test series and after this, they will take part in the limited overs series before heading to SA.

However, former Australian cricketer Dean Jones reckons that Indian players shouldn’t complain about their salaries. He said that Indian players are already receiving millions and therefore they should keep playing when they are doing well. Talking to NDTV, he said, “I can’t really speak on behalf of Virat and MS (Dhoni). When in form and you are playing well, the season is not long enough. You just want to keep playing.”

Dean concluded, “If you are making runs and winning easily you just want to keep playing. When you are struggling and the team is being smashed, like Sri Lanka at the moment, the season can’t end quick enough. If these guys are getting paid millions of dollars a year and if they are going to get millions of dollars then they have to keep playing (every) series so they can recoup their money through television and sponsorships. So they need to keep playing.”