Women’s groups might be awarded the similar prize cash as their male opposite numbers at International Cricket Council occasions any more.
England walked away with a pot of $1.6m (£1.2m) after profitable the lads’s Twenty20 World Cup remaining yr whilst Australia claimed $1m (£763,000) via going all of the means within the girls’s an identical in February.
But at its annual convention in Durban, South Africa, the ICC introduced males’s and ladies’s groups might be rewarded similarly for his or her an identical completing positions at its tournaments, together with World Cups.
There can also be an excellent cut up for profitable a fit at the ones occasions with the ICC pointing out it has “fulfilled its commitment to reaching prize money equity by 2030 well ahead of schedule”.
The ICC chair, Greg Barclay, mentioned: “This is an important second within the historical past of our recreation, and I’m thrilled that males’s and ladies’s cricketers competing at ICC international occasions will now be rewarded similarly.
“Since 2017 we’ve greater prize cash at girls’s occasions annually with a transparent focal point on attaining equivalent prize cash and, from right here on in, profitable the ladies’s Cricket World Cup will lift the similar prize cash as profitable the lads’s Cricket World Cup and the similar for T20 World Cups and under-19s too.
“Cricket is genuinely a sport for all and this decision from the ICC Board reinforces that and enables us to celebrate and value every single player’s contribution to the game equally.”
The subsequent ICC event is the lads’s 50-over World Cup in India in October and November, whilst there are each males’s and ladies’s T20 World Cups subsequent yr.
As a part of a damning document into the sport in England and Wales remaining month, the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket beneficial a “fundamental overhaul” of feminine gamers’ pay construction. It has been prompt to the England and Wales Cricket Board that there must be equivalent pay on moderate at home stage via 2029 and at global stage via 2030.