‘One piece of the puzzle’: ICC announces equal prize money for men’s and women’s teams at World Cup events

The Worldwide Cricket Council has introduced that ladies will obtain the identical prize cash as their male counterparts in future World Cup occasions.

Groups will now gather equal prize cash for his or her equal ending place at comparable ICC occasions, corresponding to subsequent 12 months’s Males’s T20 World Cup within the Americas and Girls’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.

The Australian girls’s workforce obtained $1.45 million for profitable this 12 months’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, whereas England’s males’s workforce was awarded $2.3 million for his or her corresponding triumph final summer time.

In 2020, Cricket Australia topped up the prize cash the nationwide girls’s workforce obtained after profitable that 12 months’s T20 World Cup, guaranteeing parity with the boys’s equal earnings.

“It is a vital second within the historical past of our sport, and I’m delighted that males’s and ladies’s cricketers competing at ICC international occasions will now be rewarded equally,” ICC Chair Greg Barclay stated in an announcement.

“Since 2017 we now have elevated prize cash at girls’s occasions yearly with a transparent concentrate on reaching equal prize cash and from right here on in, profitable the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup will carry the identical prize cash as profitable the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup and the identical for T20 World Cups and U19s too.

“Cricket is genuinely a sport for all and this choice from the ICC Board reinforces that and allows us to rejoice and worth each single participant’s contribution to the sport equally.”

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Former Australian vice-captain Rachael Haynes recognised the ICC’s choice was a “actually constructive” step for the game, however acknowledged that prize cash comprised a small fraction of complete earnings for cricketers, with contracts a extra prevalent difficulty for girls’s gamers.

“These occasions are equal occasions, and profitable them, no matter whether or not you’re male or feminine, needs to be celebrated on the identical stage; we already see that in lots of different sports activities,” Haynes, who’s talking on a Kayo panel on the Girls In Sport Summit on the Gold Coast subsequent week, informed Fox Cricket.

“For me although, this is only one piece of the puzzle … the core of a participant’s wage actually is their contract. That’s the place their safety is, and it allows them to speculate extra time in themselves to turn into higher gamers and higher athletes.

“The prize cash is one part, however the subsequent part actually is about participant contracts and ensuring we obtain some form of fairness there as effectively.”

As a part of Cricket Australia’s new MOU with the Australian Cricketers‘ Affiliation, the common Girls’s Massive Bash League participant retainer has doubled from $26,900 to $54,200 — the equal BBL determine elevated to roughly $167,000.

Final month, the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket really helpful a “basic overhaul” of the ECB’s pay construction after its damning report claimed “England males obtained 13 instances the quantity paid to England girls” in 2021.

In the meantime, the BCCI’s highest annual contract for girls is value roughly $89,000, drastically decrease than the $1.24 million that India’s prime male cricketers obtain.