The India Women group that reached the ultimate of the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia final 12 months is but to obtain their prize cash from BCCI, in accordance to a report in The Telegraph. The event ended on March 8, 2020, with hosts Australia beating India within the last in Melbourne.
According to the report, the prize cash sums up to $500000.
The Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA)’s CEO Tom Moffat stated it was ‘unacceptable’ that the prize cash was not given to the gamers. He urged them to type an affiliation.
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“Prize money is payable to players for their on-field performance in pinnacle events and the late non-payment of money owing to players is unacceptable,” Moffat advised Telegraph Sport. “We encourage players in India to consider getting organised as part of a players’ association so they, and the game in India, can benefit from collective player representation in the same way that their fellow professionals around the world do.”
The information comes at a time when the BCCI is beneath criticism for the massive distinction in contracts between India’s women and men cricketers. While the lads’s contracts are divided into 4 slabs – Rs 7 crore, Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 1 crore, the ladies’s contract are divided into three slabs – Rs 50 lakhs, Rs 30 lakhs and Rs 10 lakhs.
The Indian group additionally hardly had any cricket to play after the T20 World Cup last, with solely 4 Women’s T20 Challenge matches in hand at the same time as the lads’s group had the IPL and tour of Australia, adopted by dwelling collection in opposition to England.
The BCCI lately introduced annual Player Contracts for the India Women group for the interval from October 2020 to September 2021. Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav are in Grade A, as they have been final 12 months.
One-Day International captain Mithali Raj and senior bowler Jhulan Goswami, who’ve retired from T20Is, are in Grade B. Teen sensation Shafali Verma has been promoted from Grade C to Grade B. Punam Raut and Rajeshwari Gayakwad too have been moved from Grade C to Grade B.
Veda Krishnamurthy is the one participant from the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup to be excluded from the contracts.
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