- Girls’s World Cup’s prize pot raised to $13.88m from $3.5m.
- Quantity eclipses the whole $10m for the final males’s World Cup.
- Winners of this 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup will get $4.48m.
NEW DELHI: Prize cash for the Girls’s World Cup cricket will outstrip the boys’s version by greater than a 3rd, boasting an total purse of $13.88 million, the game´s governing physique mentioned Monday.
The prize pot is up from $3.5 million in 2022 and eclipses the whole $10 million for the final males’s World Cup.
The thirteenth version of the ladies’s showpiece 50-over event, which begins September 30 in India and Sri Lanka, is a “monumental rise” from the earlier version in New Zealand three years in the past, the Worldwide Cricket Council mentioned.
“This announcement marks a defining milestone within the journey of girls’s cricket,” ICC chairman Jay Shah mentioned.
“This four-fold improve in prize cash is a landmark second for girls’s cricket and displays our clear dedication to its long-term progress.”
Shah, former chief of India’s cricket board (BCCI), mentioned: “Our message is easy, ladies cricketers should know they are going to be handled on par with males in the event that they select this sport professionally.”
The winners of this 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup will get $4.48 million. That could be a 239% improve from the $1.32 million awarded to Australia in 2022.
The runners-up will obtain $2.24 million, compared to the $600,000 England received three years in the past.
Co-hosts India will face Sri Lanka within the opener in Guwahati.
Pakistan will play all their matches in Colombo as a part of a compromise deal that permits each India and Pakistan to play at impartial venues in multi-nation tournaments.
The ultimate will probably be performed on November 2, both in Mumbai or Colombo, relying on whether or not Pakistan attain the title conflict.
