Cricket West Indies President, Dr. Kishore Shallow.
Cricket West Indies, file
Cricket West Indies are poised to shell out practically a quarter-million United States {dollars} in prize cash for the Regional Super50 Cup, a document payout for the 50-overs championship.
The winners of the match will accumulate US$100,000 whereas the shedding finalists will take away $50,000. For the primary time, the facet topping the desk within the league part will earn one other $50,000.
The elevated payout extends to subsequent 12 months’s West Indies top notch championship, in addition to the Ladies’s Super50 Cup and T20 Blaze, leading to practically US$2.5 million in prize cash and bonuses being distributed over the subsequent 4 years.
CWI President Dr. Kishore Shallow stated, “The purpose is to incentivize our cricketers, which can in the end lead to extra intense and aggressive cricket.” “These new prize monies signify a major improve within the reward purse for groups in regional cricket.”“We firmly imagine this can act as a fillip to gamers’ performances and their pursuit of excellence. That is a part of our funding within the sport and people who fly the flag on the sector.”
Eight groups will contest the Super50 Cup which will likely be performed in T&T throughout three venues — Queen’s Park Oval in St. Clair, Portof-Spain, the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando and the UWI Sport and Bodily Schooling Centre (UWI SPEC) on the St. Augustine Campus.
The match will function West Indies stars together with Shai Hope, Rovman Powell, Kraigg Brathwaite, Shimron Hetmyer and Alzarri Joseph.
There was a large increase in prize cash for the primary class championship which will likely be performed within the first half of subsequent 12 months, with the champions incomes quarter-million US {dollars}, eight occasions the quantity paid out final 12 months. The second-placed crew will obtain US$100,000.
In the meantime, the winners of the Ladies’s Super50 Cup will obtain US$20,000 subsequent 12 months, with a minimal improve of US$10,000 yearly over the subsequent 4 years.
There’s additionally a rise for the T20 Blaze with the champions taking away US$10,000. The will increase will likely be remodeled the subsequent four-year cycle.CWI additionally stated there could be “additional will increase” for particular person gamers in addition to “a serious increase” in pay for girls’s gamers, as soon as the Memorandum-of-Understanding with gamers union, WIPA, was finalised.
