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Revealed on: Jul 14, 2023
In a landmark determination, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday, July 13, introduced equal prize cash for males’s and girls’s groups at ICC occasions. The choice was taken in the course of the ICC Annual Convention held in Durban, South Africa, as a part of the world cricketing physique’s goal to realize prize cash parity by 2030.
A report on the official ICC web site confirmed that groups will now obtain equal prize cash for ending in related positions at comparable occasions. Additionally, the quantity might be equal for profitable a match at these occasions. Sharing his ideas concerning the massive determination, ICC Chairman Greg Barclay mentioned, “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.”
“Since 2017 we’ve 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.
“Cricket is genuinely a sport for all and this determination from the ICC Board reinforces that and allows us to have a good time and worth each single participant’s contribution to the sport equally,” he went on add.
The ICC report identified at winners and runners-up on the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2020 and 2023 acquired $1 million and $500,000 respectively, which was 5 occasions the quantity that was given in 2018. Additional, the prize cash for the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2022 elevated to $3.5m from the $2m in 2017.
Additionally, each member of the ICC will obtain a rise in funding courtesy of a strategic funding fund, which is devoted to selling international progress initiatives and is aligned with the ICC International Development Technique. Elaborating on the identical Barclay commented, “The success of our media rights and industrial programme for our subsequent four-year cycle means we’re capable of make investments extra money than ever earlier than into our sport.
“All Members will obtain a base distribution after which extra income might be in relation to contribution to the worldwide sport each on and off the sphere. That is by far the biggest degree of funding ever to enter cricket and it’s a once-in-a-generation alternative for our Members to speed up progress and interact extra gamers and followers and drive competitiveness,” he added.
The ICC additionally introduced a change in over-rate legal guidelines. Cricketers gained’t lose one hundred pc match charges like earlier. As an alternative, gamers might be fined 5% of their price for each over their crew is brief, as much as 50%. ICC mentioned, “If a crew is bowled out earlier than the brand new ball is due at 80 overs, there might be no over-rate penalty utilized even when there’s a sluggish over fee. This replaces the present 60 over threshold.”
Sourav Ganguly, chair of the Males’s Cricket Committee, confirmed, “The Males’s Cricket Committee felt strongly that over-rate penalties within the type of WTC factors deductions ought to stay however really helpful that gamers shouldn’t have 100% of their match price in danger.”
This rule comes into impact retrospectively ranging from the continuing WTC cycle, which started on June 16.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
