Dubai:
The Worldwide Cricket Council on Tuesday introduced equal prize cash for women and men in World Cups, beginning with the ladies’s T20 showpiece within the UAE subsequent month. The winners of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup might be rewarded with USD 2.34 million, a 134 per cent enhance on the USD 1 million awarded to Australian ladies once they clinched the title in South Africa in 2023, mentioned the ICC in a press release. “The ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 would be the first ICC occasion the place ladies will obtain the identical prize cash as their male counterparts, marking a major milestone within the sport’s historical past,” mentioned the ICC.
“The choice was taken on the ICC Annual Convention in July 2023, when the ICC Board took the step of reaching its prize cash fairness goal seven years forward of its schedule of 2030, making cricket the one main workforce sport to have equal prize cash for its males’s and ladies’s World Cup occasions.”
The runners-up on the showpiece occasion subsequent month will get USD 1.17 million, a rise of 134 per cent compared to the USD 500,000 South Africa acquired for reaching the ultimate on house soil at Newlands Cricket Floor.
The 2 shedding semi-finalists will earn USD 675, 000 (up from USD 210 000 in 2023), with the general prize pot totalling USD 7,958,080, an enormous enhance of 225 per cent from final yr’s complete fund of USD 2.45 million.
Every win through the group phases will see groups take house USD 31,154, whereas the six groups who fail to succeed in the semi-finals will share a pool of USD 1.35 million relying on their ending positions.
As compared, the equal pool for the six groups in 2023 was USD 180,000, shared equally. Groups who end third or fourth of their group will take USD 270,000 every whereas the groups who end fifth of their group will each obtain USD 135,000.
“This transfer is in step with the ICC’s technique to prioritise the ladies’s sport and speed up its development by 2032. Groups will now obtain equal prize cash for the equal ending place at comparable occasions in addition to the identical quantity for successful a match at these occasions,” the ICC added.
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