In a historic step, the International Cricket Council (ICC) launched pay parity so far as the prize money in main events equivalent to Cricket World Cup, T20 World Cup and U-19 World Cups. The ICC has been build up to this second for the final 5 years since 2018 rising it by nearly 5 occasions the prize money of women’s events since then earlier than taking the large choice in Durban, South Africa in the Annual Conference on Thursday, July 13.
Announcing the identical by an ICC launch, Chairman of the Council Greg Barclay stated, “This is a major second in the historical past of our sport and I’m delighted that men’s and girls’s cricketers competing at ICC world events will now be rewarded equally.
“Since 2017 we’ve elevated prize money at girls’s events yearly with a transparent deal with reaching equal prize money and from right here on in, profitable the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup will carry the identical prize money as profitable the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and the identical for T20 World Cups and U19s too,” Barclay additional added.
The groups will now receive the identical quantity of prize money at comparable events for ending in comparable positions in addition to the identical quantity of money for every match. The winners of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 and 2023 acquired a prize money of $1 million which is 5 occasions than that of the 2018 version.
The prize pot for the Women’s World Cup 2022 was $3.5 million, 75 per cent improve from the $2 million prize pool in the 2017 version, with the winners Australia strolling away with $1.32 million final 12 months in New Zealand.
This is a major step in the empowerment and promotion of the women’s recreation which has seen report viewership and improve in eyeballs in the final couple of years.
