Australian gamers rejoice with trophy after successful the Girls’s World Cup. — ICC websiteWomen’s World Cup’s prize pot raised to $13.88m from $3.5m.Quantity eclipses the whole $10m for the final males’s World Cup.Winners of this 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup will get $4.48m.
NEW DELHI: Prize cash for the Girls’s World Cup cricket will outstrip the boys’s version by greater than a 3rd, boasting an general purse of $13.88 million, the game´s governing physique stated Monday.
The prize pot is up from $3.5 million in 2022 and eclipses the whole $10 million for the final males’s World Cup.
The thirteenth version of the ladies’s showpiece 50-over match, which begins September 30 in India and Sri Lanka, is a “monumental rise” from the earlier version in New Zealand three years in the past, the Worldwide Cricket Council stated.
“This announcement marks a defining milestone in the journey of women’s cricket,” ICC chairman Jay Shah stated.
“This four-fold increase in prize money is a landmark moment for women’s cricket and reflects our clear commitment to its long-term growth.”
Shah, former chief of India’s cricket board (BCCI), stated: “Our message is simple, women cricketers must know they will be treated on par with men if they choose this sport professionally.”
The winners of this 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup will get $4.48 million. That may be a 239% enhance from the $1.32 million awarded to Australia in 2022.
The runners-up will obtain $2.24 million, compared to the $600,000 England received three years in the past.
Co-hosts India will face Sri Lanka within the opener in Guwahati.
Pakistan will play all their matches in Colombo as a part of a compromise deal that enables each India and Pakistan to play at impartial venues in multi-nation tournaments.
The ultimate will probably be performed on November 2, both in Mumbai or Colombo, relying on whether or not Pakistan attain the title conflict.
