England Cricket Board Declares Equal Match Charge For Ladies’s, Males’s
After a profitable girls’s multi-format Ashes sequence that noticed document crowds within the stadium, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) introduced a rise in match charges for the ladies’s facet that may carry them on par with the boys’s group.
“Following record-breaking crowds of 110,000 at this summer season’s Ladies’s Ashes sequence, the ECB at present pronounces it’s growing match charges for England Ladies to carry them consistent with England Males’s match charges,” mentioned a press release from ECB.
England set new girls’s worldwide attendance data at Edgbaston, The Oval and Lord’s and offered out matches at Taunton, Bristol and Hampshire of their sequence towards Australia.
England Ladies’s captain, Heather Knight, proclaimed the sequence as “the perfect there has ever been within the historical past of the ladies’s recreation.”
The sequence resulted in a 8-8 draw and Australia retained the Ashes. Whereas Australia gained the one-off Take a look at and received these essential 4 factors, England gained each white-ball sequence by 2-1 and received two factors per win.
The rise takes impact instantly, starting with this week’s white-ball sequence towards Sri Lanka.
The extra funding follows will increase to home wage pots this yr and salaries for ladies’s gamers in The Hundred greater than doubled final yr. With elevated incomes alternatives in competitions world wide, the game at the moment provides among the finest incomes alternatives amongst feminine group sports activities.
Richard Gould, ECB Chief Government Officer, mentioned: “This summer season’s thrilling Ladies’s Ashes sequence demonstrated how girls’s cricket is constant to develop at tempo on this nation, with document attendances and TV viewing. Rising the ladies’s and ladies’ recreation is a key precedence for us, and lately now we have significantly elevated funding each in constructing a home girls’s construction to supply the gamers of the longer term, and in growing participant rewards.”
“Within the years forward, we’ll proceed to take a position forward of revenues. We’re at the moment contemplating all of the suggestions made by the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket, however equalising match charges is one fast step we’re happy to make now. All of us need cricket to be the group sport of selection for feminine athletes, and with the investments we’re making – and more and more profitable alternatives world wide – we’re seeing cricketers develop into among the highest-earning feminine athletes in UK group sports activities. Nonetheless, we all know there may be nonetheless a lot additional to go as we in the end try for equality throughout the sport.”
“As we proceed to develop girls’s cricket, we’ll proceed to concentrate on making thought-about investments that stretch far and broad throughout the ladies’s cricket constructions, delivering a thriving, worthwhile and future-proofed recreation,” he concluded.
Heather Knight, England Ladies’s Captain, mentioned:
“It’s actually essential that we proceed to drive the ladies’s recreation ahead and it’s improbable to see equal match charges for England Ladies and England Males.”
“The course of journey for the ladies’s recreation has all the time been a very powerful factor, making a sustainable product that individuals need to watch and play, and I am certain it will make cricket an more and more enticing sport to ladies and younger girls as we proceed to develop the sport.”
“I’d additionally prefer to thank the PCA (Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation) and England Ladies’s Participant Partnership for his or her help in representing the gamers and the expansion of the skilled recreation,” she concluded.
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