Cricket is the game which keeps on giving to its former players thanks to the Twenty20 revolution.
James Franklin, Scott Styris, Hamish Marshall, Kyle Mills, Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, Jeetan Patel, Jacob Oram and Ian Butler are among the players named in the Masters Champions League teams confirmed this week.
The tournament in the UAE early next year will feature many of the greatest cricketers of the past couple of decades.
South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis topped the auction in Dubai fetching $263,000, with Aussie legend Adam Gilchrist, who has been retired from test cricket for nearly a decade, a close second.