India cricket

2022 - 10 - 27

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How BCCI's pay equity change for women's cricket compares with ... (The Indian Express)

Jay Shah, the Honorary Secretary of BCCI, said women cricketers will be paid the same match fee as the men: Test matches at Rs 15 lakhs, ODI matches at Rs 6 ...

In another significant step, the US Soccer Associations for men and women negotiated agreements for equal pay this year as well. This is a welcome step towards gender equality in the game and erasing discrimination from the sport. New Zealand Cricket, the governing body for professional cricket in the country, and the players’ association signed a five-year deal so that both international and domestic level-women players will receive the same match fees as men across all formats and competitions. I believe this is a significant step forward for women’s cricket and the game overall.” For women cricketers, Rs 50 lakh for Grade A cricketers, Rs 30 lakh for Grade B and Rs 10 lakh for Grade C cricketers are paid annually apart from the match fees. This is a welcome step towards gender equality in the game and erasing discrimination from the sport.”

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'A good career in life': India cricket pay deal a game changer for ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Jemimah Rodrigues believes that match payment parity for the women and men in India's national teams will help make cricket a realistic career option for ...

You need to be the best version of yourself and things will work out for you and for your team.” So this was one thing I learned over the last few years, that I don’t have to try to be someone else to score. That’s what the team talks about.” It’s going to help all of us and it shows how much initiative the BCCI has been taking to help bridge that gap,” Rodrigues told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. “So I was trying to hit the ball really hard and that really didn’t work for me, because that’s not my game. So it’s not easy to play cricket and do a job, providing for four or five members in the family.

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India's female cricketers, who once paid to play, will now earn as ... (Quartz India)

In the early 1980s, around the time when the cricketing world's most coveted trophy was brought home for the first time by Indian men, the country's woman ...

For instance, in upcoming tours, the Indian women will be playing two Test matches, 27 one-day internationals (ODIs), and 36 T20 matches between 2022 and 2025. The BCCI has now revised the match fees for all forms of the game: Test, one-day internationals (ODIs), and T20. Besides, the women’s collective match earnings still aren’t anywhere close to those of the male players. Players keen on playing in the 1982 edition of the women’s World Cup in Australia were asked to pay 10,000 rupees ($1,147 at an exchange rate of Rs 9.46 per dollar). 27) announced that both men and women contracted to play for international matches will now earn the same fees. Besides, domestic match players won’t see a change in their incomes.

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