BCCI proclaims implementation of pay fairness coverage between female and male cricketers
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has introduced the implementation of a pay fairness coverage for contracted Indian ladies cricketers. The match price for each Men and Women Cricketers will now be the identical from the BCCI.
Sharing the information, BCCI honorary secretary Jay Shah tweeted, “I’m pleased to announce @BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing pay equity policy for our contracted @BCCIWomen cricketers.”
I’m happy to announce @BCCI’s first step in direction of tackling discrimination. We are implementing pay fairness coverage for our contracted @BCCIWomen cricketers. The match price for each Men and Women Cricketers might be similar as we transfer into a brand new period of gender equality in 🇮🇳 Cricket. pic.twitter.com/xJLn1hCAtl
— Jay Shah (@JayShah) October 27, 2022
As per the brand new coverage, the ladies cricketers contracted by BCCI might be paid 15 lakhs rupees per Test match, 6 lakhs rupees per One Day International, and three lakhs per T20 International, in keeping with the funds made to the boys’s cricket group for the worldwide video games. Mr. Shah added that it was his dedication to offer this pay fairness to feminine cricketers and he has managed to attain it.
The curiosity in ladies’s cricket has been rising in India through the previous few years, particularly after India reached the ultimate of the 2017 World Cup on the again of a historic 171* by present skipper Harmanpreet Kaur. Since then, India has additionally reached the ultimate of the T20 World Cup in 2020, made it to the ultimate of the Commonwealth Games in 2022, and gained the not too long ago concluded Asia Cup.
Adding this pay fairness isn’t the one step that BCCI has taken to advertise ladies’s cricket in India. Starting in 2023, there might be an IPL for girls’s cricket as properly, in keeping with the present Indian Premier League for males’s cricket. The ladies’s Indian Premier League can have its inaugural version in March 2023, forward of the boys’s IPL, and can encompass 5 groups.
The occasion is anticipated to beef up the ladies’s sport within the nation, just like the one the boys’s sport acquired when it comes to cash and recognition after the occasion was launched in 2008.
