England’s feminine worldwide cricketers can be paid the identical match charges as their male counterparts on the again of document attendances and viewing figures for the Ladies’s Ashes performed over June and July.
The transfer towards abolishing the pay hole between female and male gamers in England had already been really helpful in a report by the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket, which was printed two months in the past and highlighted deep-rooted discrimination within the English sport.
That report stated the typical wage for England Ladies gamers was 20.6% of what gamers within the males’s crew acquired for limited-overs video games.
A complete of 1,10,00 folks got here to look at the drawn Ladies’s Ashes collection between England and Australia, with crowds of round 20,000 at a number of of the limited-overs matches. Greater than 23,000 tickets had been offered for the 5 days of the check at Trent Bridge.
Broadcast viewing figures of 5.3 million had been double these in 2019.
The pay enhance will take impact instantly, beginning with this week’s Twenty20 collection towards Sri Lanka.
All of us need cricket to be the crew sport of alternative for feminine athletes,” stated Richard Gould, chief govt of the England and Wales Cricket Board,” and, with the investments we’re making and more and more profitable alternatives world wide, we’re seeing cricketers change into a few of the highest-earning feminine athletes in UK crew sports activities.
Nevertheless, we all know there’s nonetheless a lot additional to go as we in the end try for equality throughout the sport.”
The Worldwide Cricket Council stated in July that males’s and ladies’s groups will obtain equal prize cash at cricket’s largest worldwide tournaments with quick impact.