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Printed on: Jul 14, 2023
In a landmark resolution, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday, July 13, introduced equal prize cash for males’s and ladies’s groups at ICC occasions. The choice was taken through the ICC Annual Convention held in Durban, South Africa, as a part of the world cricketing physique’s purpose to realize prize cash parity by 2030.
A report on the official ICC website confirmed that groups will now obtain equal prize cash for ending in comparable positions at comparable occasions. Additionally, the quantity will probably be equal for profitable a match at these occasions. Sharing his ideas concerning the large resolution, ICC Chairman Greg Barclay stated, “This can be a important second within the historical past of our sport and I’m delighted that males’s and ladies’s cricketers competing at ICC international occasions will now be rewarded equally.”
“Since 2017 now we have elevated prize cash at girls’s occasions yearly with a transparent give attention to 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 resolution from the ICC Board reinforces that and permits 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 obtained $1 million and $500,000 respectively, which was 5 instances 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 Progress 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 in a position to make investments extra money than ever earlier than into our sport.
“All Members will obtain a base distribution after which extra income will probably be in relation to contribution to the worldwide recreation 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 have interaction extra gamers and followers and drive competitiveness,” he added.
The ICC additionally introduced a change in over-rate legal guidelines. Cricketers received’t lose one hundred pc match charges like earlier. As a substitute, gamers will probably be fined 5% of their payment for each over their staff is brief, as much as 50%. ICC stated, “If a staff is bowled out earlier than the brand new ball is due at 80 overs, there will probably be no over-rate penalty utilized even when there’s a gradual over price. 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 useful that gamers shouldn’t have 100% of their match payment in danger.”
This rule comes into impact retrospectively ranging from the continued WTC cycle, which started on June 16.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
