Adelaide, Feb 18 The Indian cricketers, it is learnt, are not too happy with the cap on income they can make from the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL).

According to IPL rules, each franchise could spend upto five million dollars in buying up players for a team and an icon player, named by IPL as the likes of Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh, are to get USD 400,000 for a year.

The auction for the players will take place in India on Wednesday.

Indian cricketers feel that they should at least be getting more money than the Australian cricketers -- somebody like Adam Gilchrist -- will have a base salary of 275,000 dollars while Ricky Ponting's starting price would at least be 350,000 dollars.

"Our match fee structure is better than the Australians. Besides, I don't think Australians would have the same kind of pull for fans as compared to a star Indian cricketer," said a senior Indian batsman on condition of anonymity.

Indian cricketers though are unlikely to take up the cudgels and would sign on the dotted line even though there is a swell of anger on having been offered contract so late on the day. (Agencies)