The 19th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026) has started from Saturday. In the first match, Virat Kohli batted brilliantly and scored unbeaten 69 runs, Devdutt Padikkal (61) also scored an important half-century. With the help of these innings, RCB achieved the target of 202 in the 16th over. Royal Challengers Bangalore bowler Jacob Duffy received the Player of the Match award, he took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. With this award he received prize money of Rs 1 lakh. Pakistan Super League is also going on in the same window, whose prize money of Player of the Match award is 5 lakh Pakistani rupees.

Indian Premier League is the biggest T20 league in the world, but Pakistan claims that their league competes with IPL. However, this is not true, be it prize money, players’ salaries, value of franchises, number of viewers, viewership or anything else, IPL seems to be ahead in everything. Although PSL is ahead in the prize money of Player of the Match award, but the difference is only in thousands.

POTM prize money in IPL 2026

In the first match of the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, RCB fast bowler Jacob Duffy received the Player of the Match award, along with which he was also given a prize money of Rs 1 lakh.

POTM prize money in PSL 2026

Michael Bracewell was chosen player of the match in a match of Pakistan Super League, he is playing for Peshawar Zalmi. He received 5 lakh Pakistani rupees as prize money. However, Pakistani currency is less compared to Indian currency in the international market. If seen in Indian currency, Pakistani Rs 5 lakh is approximately Rs 1 lakh 50 thousand.

IPL spends more in total prize money

However, along with the Player of the Match award, some other titles are also given in IPL, like awards are also given for Super Striker, Best Catch etc. in every match. According to the report, if we combine the prize money of all the awards per match, it comes to Rs 5 lakh, which is more than 3 times compared to PSL.