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Unsurprisingly, the overriding factor was money.

But Taylor is far from the stereotypical gun-for-hire that has emerged in modern cricket where lucrative T20 contracts are available year round.

He cared deeply about representing Zimbabwe - his emotional reaction as he walked off the ground having made a century against India in his last international match said it all - but simply couldn’t justify being paid such meagre sums.

It is being widely reported that Taylor received around $250 - before tax - for his six World Cup matches, in which he scored 433 runs to finish fourth on the run-scorers list.

That equates to approximately 58 cents per run.

By contrast, Australia’s players receive $5,600 for each one-day international they play. The World Cup winning Aussies also received a total of $4.3 million in prize money although Cricket Australia does not divulge how and where that money was distributed.

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