India’s ladies’s cricket group gamers have fun with the trophy after successful the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025 closing match towards South Africa. — Reuters/File
This yr’s Ladies’s Twenty20 World Cup may have a tournament-record prize pool of $8.8 million with the winners set to earn $2.3 million, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) stated on Monday.
The 12-team competitors will probably be held in England and Wales from June 12, with New Zealand set to defend the maiden title they received in 2024.
“The runners-up will receive $1.17 million. Both losing semi-finalists will earn $675,000 each,” the ICC stated in a press release, including that each collaborating group was assured a minimal prize of $248,000.
The prize pool will probably be smaller than these on the males’s and ladies’s World Cups held within the Indian subcontinent within the final three years.
Final yr’s 50-over Ladies’s World Cup in India and Sri Lanka had a prize pool of $13.9 million, the very best pot at an ICC occasion, and a 297% enhance from its earlier version in 2022. Champions India took residence $4.5 million.
The 2023 version of the boys’s 50-over World Cup, held in India, had a prize pot of $10 million, whereas this yr’s males’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka supplied $11.25 million in prize cash.
“The continued rise of women’s cricket through increased investment and opportunity reflects the growing influence and impact of female athletes on the global stage,” the ICC’s CEO Sanjog Gupta stated.
