NEW DELHI: In a landmark choice, the World Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday has declared that males’s and ladies’s groups competing in ICC occasions will obtain equivalent prize cash.
This choice was once introduced on the ICC’s annual convention in Durban.
“This is a significant moment in the history of our sport and I am delighted that men’s and women’s cricketers competing at ICC global events will now be rewarded equally,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay mentioned in a remark.
“Since 2017 we have increased prize money at women’s events every year with a clear focus on reaching equal prize money.
“From right here on in, successful the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Global Cup will lift the similar prize cash as successful the ICC Males’s Cricket Global Cup and the similar for Twenty20 Global Cups and Underneath-19s too.”
Australia won the women’s Twenty20 World Cup earlier this year and took home $1 million in prize money while runners-up South Africa received $500,000.
On the other hand, England men’s team received $1.6 million after winning the T20 World Cup in November last year while losing finalists Pakistan got $800,000.
Lauding ICC, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter and said: “Get started of a brandnew crack of dawn. An moment of equality and empowerment.”
This choice was once introduced on the ICC’s annual convention in Durban.
“This is a significant moment in the history of our sport and I am delighted that men’s and women’s cricketers competing at ICC global events will now be rewarded equally,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay mentioned in a remark.
“Since 2017 we have increased prize money at women’s events every year with a clear focus on reaching equal prize money.
“From right here on in, successful the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Global Cup will lift the similar prize cash as successful the ICC Males’s Cricket Global Cup and the similar for Twenty20 Global Cups and Underneath-19s too.”
Australia won the women’s Twenty20 World Cup earlier this year and took home $1 million in prize money while runners-up South Africa received $500,000.
On the other hand, England men’s team received $1.6 million after winning the T20 World Cup in November last year while losing finalists Pakistan got $800,000.
Lauding ICC, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter and said: “Get started of a brandnew crack of dawn. An moment of equality and empowerment.”
