Males and Ladies’s Crew set to get equal prize cash in ICC World Cups: In a milestone resolution, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday confirmed that the Males and Ladies’s Cricket Crew will obtain equal prize cash within the ICC-sponsored occasions held internationally. The event was made on the ICC Annual Convention held in Durham.

The choice to carry the prize cash of Males’s and Ladies’s Cricket to the identical stage was a step to realize prize cash parity, for which 2030 was fastened because the deadline.

With this landmark resolution, all of the groups (Males and Ladies) competing within the ICC occasions in all corners of the world will obtain an equal sum of cash at each step. The prize distribution construction within the two comparable ICC occasions between Males and Ladies can have no distinction.

ICC chairman Greg Barclay was delighted with the numerous transfer and stated the ladies cricketers can be rewarded equally to males now within the comparable ICC tournaments.

“It is a important second within the historical past of our sport and I’m delighted that males’s and girls’s cricketers competing at ICC international occasions will now be rewarded equally,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay stated.

“Since 2017 we’ve got elevated prize cash at girls’s occasions yearly with a transparent deal with reaching equal prize cash and from right here on in, profitable the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup will carry the identical prize cash as profitable the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup and the identical for T20 World Cups and U19s too,” he added.

“Cricket is genuinely a sport for all and this resolution from the ICC Board reinforces that and allows us to have fun and worth each single participant’s contribution to the sport equally.”

The prize cash for Ladies’s ICC occasions is on the rise since 2017. The reward for ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup was elevated from $2 Million in 2017 to $3.5 Million in 2022.

Moreover, a rise of 5 instances within the prize pool for winners and runner-ups of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2020 and 2023 was seen as ICC hiked the prize cash.

Celebrating the transfer, BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who was additionally current within the assembly, took to Twitter to applaud the hassle to realize prize cash parity in each Males and Ladies’s tournaments.

He wrote,” Begin of a brand new daybreak. An period of equality and empowerment. I’m thrilled to announce {that a} main step in the direction of gender parity & inclusivity has been undertaken. The prize cash in any respect @ICC occasions would be the similar for males & girls. Collectively we develop. I thank my fellow Board members for his or her assist in serving to obtain this essential endeavour. Let’s work in the direction of a future the place cricket continues to thrive throughout the globe.”

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