Its not only about money. IPL is also a platform to showcase what your current state is. Thats why Pant is playing IPL basically to prove his fitness. Most bowlers target IPL to get into the national team. Kuldeep Sen, K Gautham, Nitish Rana, heck Pawan Negi s of the world has india caps due to exploits in IPL. No one is bothered if Sarfaraz or Eashwaran scores a double century in Barabati stadium in Irani or Ranji trophy. Even a 15 ball 32 or 3/12 in 4 overs in few matches can lead to an Indian call. The prime example has to be Rahane. He was down out and all that till he discovered his mojo in CSK under MSD and scored bucketful of IPL runs which led to his India call in WTC and to his credit scored a few, crossed 5000 runs, flopped in Windies and now posting videos in Insta showing he is practicing and waiting for another IPL. Thats how Indian cricket runs.. Karan Sharma of all bowlers played a test cricket in Adelaide and we all know him due to his exploits in IPL..