ICC broadcasts equal prize cash for males’s and girls’s World Cups
Going ahead profitable a World Cup in males’s or ladies’s cricket will include the identical prize cash. In a large leg-up for the ladies’s sport, the ICC introduced equal prize cash for each males’s and girls’s occasions right this moment, following its annual convention in Durban. The choice contains Under-19 World Cups too.
“This is a significant moment in the history of our sport, and I am delighted that men’s and women’s cricketers competing at ICC global events will now be rewarded equally,” ICC chair Greg Barclay mentioned. “Since 2017, we have increased prize money at women’s events every year with a clear focus on reaching equal prize money and from here on in, winning the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup will carry the same prize money as winning the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and the same for T20 World Cups and U-19s too.”
Teams throughout males’s and girls’s cricket may even obtain the identical quantity for profitable every sport at corresponding World Cups, and ending runners-up, making the semi-finals and so forth.
Australia, the winners of the Women’s T20 World Cup earlier this yr, had obtained US$ 1 million in prize cash. England, who’d taken the equal males’s title in November 2022, had gained US$ 1.6 million in prize money.
Players will not lose 100% of match charge to gradual over charges
The ICC additionally capped over-rate fines at 50% of gamers’ match charges within the World Test Championship. Players shall be fined 5% of their charge for each over their workforce is brief, as much as 50%. The choice was taken by the ICC’s Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC).
“If a team is bowled out before the new ball is due at 80 overs, there will be no over-rate penalty applied even if there is a slow over rate. This replaces the current 60 over threshold,” the ICC web site mentioned.
“The Men’s Cricket Committee felt strongly that over-rate penalties in the form of WTC points deductions should remain but recommended that players should not have 100% of their match fee at risk,” Sourav Ganguly, who’s chair of the Men’s Cricket Committee and sits on the CEC, mentioned. “We believe this provides a balance between maintaining over-rates and ensuring we are not deterring players from playing Test cricket.”
This rule shall be retrospectively utilized to the this WTC cycle, which began with an Ashes Test on June 16.