The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday (September 17, 2024) 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 will likely be rewarded with $2.34 million, a 134% improve on the $1 million awarded to Australian ladies after they clinched the title in South Africa in 2023, stated the ICC in a press release.
India, who gained the lads’s T20 World Cup earlier this 12 months, obtained $2.45 million in money prize.
“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 big milestone within the sport’s historical past,” stated 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 crew sport to have equal prize cash for its males’s and girls’s World Cup occasions.”
The Ladies’s T20 World Cup begins within the UAE from October 3.
Revealed – September 17, 2024 02:32 pm IST
