Forbes lists Indian skipper MS Dhoni in top slot

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Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world's 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features four other Indian players -Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. Dhoni, raking in $10 million, tops the chart, followed by Tendulkar, with earnings of $8 million.

Singh and Dravid are third and fourth, with earnings of $5.5 million and $5 million respectively, while England's Andrew Flintoff is fifth, with $4 million.Ganguly and Australia's Ricky Ponting share sixth place, with $3.5 million each, followed by Brett Lee of Australia and Kevin Pietersen of England (joint eighth; $3 million each), and Australia's Michael Clarke ranked 10th., having earned $2.5 million.

"Paycheck include club and national team salaries and commercial endorsement income over the last 12 months," Forbes said. "With its deep-pocketed owners and global appeal, nine of the 10 highest-paid cricket players call the Indian Premier League home," the magazine said. "Take Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who plays for the Chennai Super Kings and tops our list as cricket's first $10 million-a-year man (that's $5,426 for each run scored)."